Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

A novel can enlarge the empathy and imagination of both its author and its reader, and my experience, that sense of enlargement is most intense when I'm transported beyond the narrow limits of my daily life.

Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.

You are defined by who you are, by your choices in life, in all regards, not just in doing movies.

I'm always focused and enjoying the journey because this life is meant for savoring every goal reached and striving for more.