Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

You must learn day by day year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love the more you are interested in the more you enjoy the more you are indignant about the more you have left when anything happens.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.

I try to remember as I hear about friends getting engaged that it's not about the ring and it's not about the wedding. It's a grave thing getting married. And it's easy to get swept up in the wrong things.

You know the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked and you made a living if you could and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture the sociological aspects of our climbing culture our 'me' generation our yuppie culture our SUVs or you know shopping culture our war culture.

Bad things do happen in the world like war natural disasters disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

There's an assault on human sexuality as Judge Scalia said they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things but not as conservative.

When war comes two things happen - profits go way way up and all perishables go way way down. There becomes a market for them.

In order for a war to be just three things are necessary. First the authority of the sovereign. Secondly a just cause. Thirdly a rightful intention.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live but things that help it make war.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today if only we had eyes to see them.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct if you listen to it will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.