The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Git'er DoneThey beat their swords upon their shieldsTo no beast or man would they yield

The great take steps to success, the extraordinary take leaps to success, and the remarkable take flight to success.

Small, short-sighted, blonde, barbed - she reminds me of a bright little hedgehog.

The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

Every movie I've ever made has just kind of come together.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

Meet the big while it is small.

Americans may be drinking fewer alcoholic beverages, but they are certainly eating more of them than ever before. Wittingly or un.

I didn't plan on being a comedian. I didn't plan on getting married and I didn't plan on having kids, but I did all those things.