"One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us by mankind."

"Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come."

"It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne"

"Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them."

"Everyone's a hero in their own way, in their own not that heroic way."

"We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are."

"Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying."

"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments. There are consequences."

"There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity."

"Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund."

"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

"If my film makes one more person miserable, I've done my job."