Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

Time is money.

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

Of all the ways I had imagined my death, getting beaten by my zombified mentor while trapped by a cannibalistic window handle wasn’t one of them

Until you break through the walls of fear, you will not be able to reach the door of opportunity.

Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off.

Kelsey laughed and the sound moved through him, made the hairs on his arms stand up, made hisheart beat faster

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.

Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.

We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

I do feel like I have a direct connection with God for some reason; always have since I was a little kid - I would talk to God, talk to the sky.