Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.

The stationary condition is the beginning of the end

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

Bad news travels at the speed of light good news travels like molasses.

Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.

Only time conquers time and its burdens.

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Good people end up in Hell because they can't forgive themselves.

At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.

I spend shockingly little time thinking about real-world stuff.

With or without the Royals, we are not Americans. Nor are we British. Or French. Or Void. We are something else. And the sooner we define this, the better.