“Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.”

Art is man’s refuge from adversity.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

The workman still is greater than his work.

At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men’s troubles and that will comfort you.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

The good man makes others good.

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.

Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.

There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that’s what.

In every shoot, between the actor and the director there is manipulation.

We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”

It’s hard to be natural in a scene when you pick up the phone and no one is there.

No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break free from the trees And fall.

Hand me down the shark repellent Bat-Spray!

Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.