To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.

The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

I'm always going to love my father.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.

I've just concluded - since President Obama endorses the same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual people, and enjoys an attractive countenance - thus if it becomes necessary, I shall travel to Washington, D.C., get down on my knee, and ask his hand.

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.