To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Make your best thoughts into action.

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

It is never permissible to say, I say.

Willpower and determination have their limits. A compelling life purpose, one you believe God created you for, will help you push beyond those limits

The universe created us to be happy.

The internet is a great way to get on the net.

We need more science, but what we especially need is science fiction.

Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.

Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.

The problem - at least in the United States - is not that people can't find jobs. The problem is that they're no longer finding jobs that provide them with dignity and decent social status.

I write because I am curious. I am curious about me.

Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.

Life is about growing, learning, and becoming. You can not grow, learn, or become if you can not embrace the changes in your life.