God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.
Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity.
Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.
The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him.
Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties.
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity. . . servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before crimes. . . and patient to the point of martyrdom before all the violences of bold despotism.
It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God.
At the end of the day it is just a movie and we should remember that we're doing it for the audience and we should have fun doing it. If we have fun doing it, it will come across on the screen.
Time did not compose her.