Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.

When you forgive you in no way change the past but you sure do change the future.

There is no better exercise for your heart, Than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.

Well, I've learned something from Michael Robison just about maximizing your shots. For example, if I'm shooting a scene and someone's driving at the wheel, you could steal an insert in the same shot.

I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.

A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.

Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.

My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic.

When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.

Seeing Michelle Obama's bright color choices, and how she made people smile and reinforced Obama's platforms of hope and change, was inspiring.

I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

I am so happy that I decided to cut my hair. It literally takes me three minutes to do my hair. I get out of the shower, put some conditioner in it, and it's just, 'Let's go,' and I love that! I think it's very, very important to find products that allow us to be able to have more time to do things like that.

I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you.

I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

'Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

I found out that most programmers don't like to test their software as intensely as I do.

Yes, people do come across the street to say hi, but as they approach and get near, my perception of space begins to dissolve, and a new interest takes over that is primarily emotional, and with it comes a desire to touch, which may be a human interest, but not the interest of my work.

Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.

Let me be very clear: my friendship with my friends ends where the interest of the country begins.

Actually, because of new technologies, my full studio is on my laptop. And I have a little keyboard in my bag. I can make everything I do come from my laptop. Even when I go to a big studio, all I do is to plug in my laptops. That's they way I do it.

If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.

I have decided not to run for the U.S. Senate and instead continue my efforts to make California a better place to live, work, and raise a family. We have come a long way, but our work is not done, and neither am I.

The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.