You’ve missed a lot of things. But mostly I think you’ve missed several opportunities to leave. Let me assist you to the door so that you won’t miss this next one.

Where there is darkness, there once was light.

Discipline, not the Muse, results in productivity. If you write only when she beckons, your writing is not yours at all.

I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined.

...a man does not die for business, but for ideals.

Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators.

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded.

The family is the great catechism God has given the world. The work of our lifetime is to learn how to read it and then study it prayerfully.

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

Each new development starts from something else. It does not come out of a blue sky. You make use of that which has already entered the mind.... That is the real reason for accumulating knowledge.

Make DV movies so you can learn how to make films, but don't try to distribute them until they are fantastic.