Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread. They may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

He that never changes his opinions and never corrects his mistakes will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Seek happiness for its own sake and you will not find it seek for duty and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Seek happiness for its own sake and you will not find it seek for duty and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Have a time and place for everything and do everything in its time and place and you will not only accomplish more but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.

Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.

Pain was a fascinating horror

Memories are what you no longer want to remember.

He was a Crosby, Stills and Nash song. He loved the one he was with. He was casual with a capital C.

We fail to move beyond what is safe, we abandon our dreams in favor of what is sure rather than strive for what is best for us.

When you start dating another country star, the first question is, 'When are y'all gonna do a duet?' And what sucks about that is people expect you to do it whether you want to or not.

Meddling, smug, stupid little..." "She likes me! They always play hard to get when they like me!" "No. You do not understand. I could not have done it because I can not read or write.

Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.

Regret is just a waste of time for fools.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

As my films are born at the moment when they are reflected into another person's mind and memories, there are no misconceptions. I totally accept that different people have seen a different film.