I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground.

It is much harder to pretend than it is to simply be who you already are.

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead a hundred times over these past five years.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.

There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.

A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul.

You have to believe that you can act and that you're the right person for the job but I think it's good to not always know how you're going to do it. The fun part is trying to figure it out.

I am rooted, but I flow.