A man can do a lot of damage in the church. When someone comes here, he's got his guard up. But in church a man's wide open.

A man without words is a man without thought.

All great and precious things are lonely.

My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

Courage and fear were one thing too.

Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

The world needed gentle men to rule if the people were to live in peace, not the warmongers and conniving men she so often witnessed wearing the crimson of the Imperial Council.

Know a man by his metaphors.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

I'm actually most comfortable when I'm in a bikini, running around on the beach, like, no makeup. It's really free-feeling, whereas I'm always having to get dressed up and putting makeup on.

Character is like my fingerprint; it identifies me from everyone else in the world. It says who I am and where I am headed.

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that's the part that's both morally and legally wrong. That I think is more relevant than whether or not I'm losing money.

I would love to play Marlene Dietrich in a movie. My dad's from Germany and so I feel like that would be a really interesting person to play.

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

It is the ordinariness of us that is the same in all of us.