I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.

Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.

Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.

Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, "Lie down.

Things take the time they take.Don't worry.How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?

Do you know great people are continually quoted while the average always misquote great people?

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

I'm inspired by many of my friends, colleagues, and the extraordinary people I've been fortunate enough to meet along the way.

Things that are worth doing are never easy.

Perhaps it had nothing to do with sin and everything to do with sociopathy, that most incurable of human disorders because all so afflicted consider themselves blessed rather than cursed.

[Barack Obama] intended, I think, to say that he took Trayvon's [ Martin] death somewhat personally.

Olduvai Gorge gives us one of the most remarkable stories of the past-the last chapter of the Earth's history, starting at the present day, right away back 2 million years.

I don't put off any time with my grandchildren. I don't put off a thing.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.