What God made, God loves, because it's inconceivable that God should make anything that He didn't love.

Did you ever stop to think that God is going to be as pleased to have you with Him in Heaven as you are to be there?

We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy.

A quarrel between friends when made up adds a new tie to friendship as ... the callosity formed 'round a broken bone makes it stronger than before.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.

... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled

To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.

The examined life is no picnic.

If you begin to think business whether you own it or work for it like you would a well managed sports team you will learn a lot of very interesting lessons

Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.

Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit.