The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God, whose hand is impressed upon the entire universe.

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

The sky is full of tokens which speak to the intelligent.

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of man's wants and God's goodness.

It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.

That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is not bone, but brain.

All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.

True determination is betting on your solemn decision regardless of the gloomy realities surrounding the thing you resolved to pursue.

And so, now, it is almost midnight of the first day, and I have broken my resolution to go to bedearly - postponing sleep, and thereby the inevitable waking up in tomorrow. Another device of escape.

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.

There are stars out there who would die to have this much exposure.

After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.

When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.

My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell.

To fail at all is to fail utterly.

Parties weaken themselves by their fear of capable men.

The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.