A man's tie should never be louder than his wife.

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.

We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.

People forget that when you’re 16, you’re probably more serious than you’ll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!

Maitre D' : I appreciate your understanding. Ferris: Don't think twice. It's understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself.

Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.

When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

Greed, corruption, violence, sin, deception all come from a lack of understanding that we’re all connected.

You’re a good boy. I wish you didn’t have to be quite so good

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as a duty but a privilege.

There's nothing tough about playing Third. All a guy needs is a strong arm and a strong chest.

Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

I think it's a mistake to view North Korea as a government. It really is more like a criminal syndicate.

I have to be myself, I can't be no one else.