“Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.”

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.

Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.

What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

It’s hard to fully enjoy your time on Earth without having your health.

I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren’t going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.

No other nation can do that the way we can, and it’s going to be very hard for Congress to do it over his opposition.

You try not to because it’s hard and at times shameful, but then when you read those pages over and you see they have no life to them so you throw them away and force yourself to be more honest.

There’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.

lf. I wasn’t going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

You can march to your own beat. It’s so hard sometimes in our country because conformity is the way things are pushed.

Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.