I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show...let me do it now.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

It's rather simple. God deliver us from people who know so little that they will kill for what little they know.

The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.

That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.

Many stroke survivors look back on their attack as a stroke of luck. Of course, by luck they mean horrible paralysis.

Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.

Everywhere you go, people have recorded or captured events in real time on their mobile phones. It becomes one of the first questions you ask when you go in to investigate something.

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it.

An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.

I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.