Aliena's brother, Richard, sometimes reminded her of her father, with a look or a gesture, and that was when she felt a surge of affection.

Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.

Hard work should be rewarded by good food.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

He was nineteen years old, homeless and rootless, with no family and no purpose in life.

It was the study hour. Most of the monks were reading. A few were meditating, an activity that was suspiciously similar to dozing.

A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people’s washing.

The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized.

She was unique: there was something abnormal about her, and it was that abnormal something that made her magnetic.

I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.

Believe that life is taking you down a wonderful path!

Fantasy for the most part is really just reality reflected through a storybook lens.

It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.

Science has but one fashion-to lose nothing once gained.

I'll be one year younger having missed my birthday and my mirror confirms it; so what's wrong with that.

Casting the locals is my primary concern because all the other things you assume will be manageable.

I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

I was never nervous directing. Not once. I'm more nervous acting. I'm far more nervous on set, before I say my lines, than I ever have been, as a director.