
Children are the hands by which we take hold of the heaven.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.

In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.

I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.

If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.

As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

I hate it when people call me a teen queen.