Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

There is a transcendent power in example.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

anytime you speak to anybody, remember somebody

I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.

Success is an act of exploration. That means the first thing you have to find is the unknown. Learning is searching; anything else is just waiting.

I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.

In America, Qualification is simply an attitude. I've adopted it. So, yes. I am qualified.

When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?

If I didn't believe it in my own mind, I never would have seen it.

Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn't always funny somewhere else.

That means I gotta fly like a movie no commercial That's Young Money, Cash Money yeah I'm universal

Katie Dippold, who I wrote the script with, she's very into ghosts and all that. So I go, "Hey, why don't you talk to Katie?"