Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

Now what state do you live in?''Denial.

If you feel alone take topic make conversation with your soul. it gives more positive attention to know who you are.

You are in love when you feel and see. Mind is dancing on a flower like a bee.

One word was the method by which the state collected their information. They could reel in the informants and spread them out like tentacles, ready to sting in any direction.

I'm fine I said for the 2,467th time this semester. (I know. I was keeping count)

In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy or their form of government, be conservative.

Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for community building and relating to others.

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.

As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.

I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid.