When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing.

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it

Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.

The most precious thing a human being has to give is time. There is so very little of it, after all, in a life.

The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it.

It makes sense that there is no sense without God.

In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.

If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.

It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

Don't live like there's no tomorrow because tomorrow always comes.

If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe.

With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them.

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters.