Positive thinking is the key which unlocks the doors of the world.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight.

In the consciousness that another mind reflects your thought, you find the keenest satisfaction. Here is the high office of a friend, and in these high experiences is the point of attachment.--

Try as hard as we may for perfection the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

The wider our contemplation of creation, the grander is our conception of God.

I personally think that we should be extremely reluctant to use a recall mechanism for an unpopular decision simply because of the message it sends about judicial independence.

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.

There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.

Making a movie is you're really only as good as your weakest link, so when everyone's working at their best and it actually comes together, it's an extraordinary thing because it doesn't always.

Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.