What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Besides, we were fifteen, and we couldn't get our feelings to match up with our brains. So we went with our feelings.

Even the Master, in one way or another, is a student throughout life.

My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.

Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth, And there He lives and dies.

I am 32 flavors and then some.

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

We bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back.

The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there.

Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.

I think arriving at or departing from any airport in America is just horrendous these days.