How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.

I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.

There's a difference between bravery and rash stupidity.

My hair's been every color. My hair's been all over the map.

I really tend to write in retrospect.

Love conquers in the long run. It won't do to become impatient - wait, wait - patience is bound to give success. . . .

Lloyd Richards is another director who was like that, who was a teacher.