I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.
Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.
I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.
I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.
We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.
Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.
It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.
A belief in reincarnation would at least give us some slack; we would have many lifetimes to get it right.
I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.
I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the downtrodden of every race and language and color. '
We must also suffer the consequences of our past decisions. And for that, we must open our hearts to those in need.