I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.
Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.
"If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying. "
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
I was already interested in directing when I was very young. I knew that was something I was going to be doing.