... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Success is a habit not an isolated event. Be passionate about success to cultivate it.

Part of my wisdom consists of being a whiz at reminding the dumb, why they should be whizzes, and not just live life to whiz by others.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.

What can I tell you I continue to be creative, but have only been commercially successful outside of the U.S.

I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That's what I like the most.

I'm very focused on projects that help people, not just help me.

God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing

Families are ecosystems. Each life grows in response to the lives around it

Make up your mind to be happy.