The more learned and witty you bee, the more fit to act for Satan will you bee.
Society, that first of blessings, brings with it evils death only can cure.
Hope is slowly extinguished and quickly revived.
Avarice is rarely the vice of youth.
Can mortal prayers ensure immortal happiness?
How we are born to invent our own miseries!
Benevolence, like religion, awes even those it cannot win.
The Christian life is a long and continual tendency of our hearts toward that eternal goodness which we desire on earth. All our happiness consists in thirsting for it. Now this thirst is prayer. Ever desire to approach your Creator, and you will never cease to pray. Do not think it necessary to pronounce many words.
Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire into their circumstances and minister to their wants. Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed. . . I have often tried this method, and have always found it the best medicine for a heavy heart.
Whatever your body type is, just use it.
When you're doing a comedy and you want to somehow satirise people who are taking themselves seriously, I think the most serious genre is the thing you're going to get the most out of. If you're trying to satirise a comedy, it's hard to do that - it doesn't really work as well. But I love the war movie genre and I'm a fan of all those movies that are part of what this movie is.