Truth is fire, and to speak the truth means to shine and to burn

Each time thou wishest to decide upon performing some enterprise, raise the eyes to heaven, pray God to bless thy project; if thou canst make that prayer, accomplish thy work.

They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.

But one on earth is better than the wife; that is the mother.

But that would leave Paxton to fend for herself, and the last thing any woman wanted in this kind of situation was to look around and see all the people who could help her doing nothing.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Love never stands still; it must inevitably be either growing or decaying - especially the love of marriage.

I am positively against all this crap which is carried on first in the name of this thing, then in the name of that. I believe only in what is active, immediate, and personal.

It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests.

V tired to imagine giving up his proclivities. "My monster needs to get out. Especially now.

It is true that a victim who fights back may suffer for it, but one who does not almost certainly will suffer for it.

When you make a movie, it seems like there's nothing but resistance. It's kind of a miracle that any movie ever gets made.

Just because one of you earns the paycheck doesn't mean that person should lord over how the money is handled.