As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

It’s comforting to me, ” he added, “that beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor.

Religion should be a basis for overcoming division, not for creating it.

You only regret what you don't do! Go for it, live your dreams and enjoy it all!

As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.

Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.

The year after I graduated from high school, they came to shoot Mr. and Mrs. Bridge in Kansas City.

The federal government's most useful role is not to rush into a program of excessive increases in public expenditures, but to expand the incentives and opportunities for private expenditures.

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.

Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.