Who mentioned the Church? On the contrary, I have great respect for religion. My objection is to those who are against so many things and for so little.
The fact of the matter is that poor men do not often steal, and when they do, it is petty theft, something to eat or perhaps an item of clothing to keep them from the cold. Thieves are usually those who have something and want more.
If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you.
You are your own best teacher. My advice is to question all things. Seek for answers, and when you find what seems to be an answer, question that, too.
Knowledge was meant to be shared.
Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.
No man is lost while he yet lives.
What can the will do when the heart commands?
A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.
I fear there will be no future for those who do not change.
The dancer becomes the dance. And I am the writing.
Knowledge is awareness, and to it are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. But sometimes one is guided through the maze by intuition. One is led by something felt on the wind, something seen in the stars, something that calls from the wasteland to the spirit.
Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.
How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she’s a woman, and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none.
There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.
It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly.
There’s no stopping a man who knows he’s in the right and keeps a-coming.
I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It’s to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters.
What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.
A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.