Allow for many paths to your goal. Do not fixate on one path, because then you are likely to give up when that path is blocked.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

She didn't know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.

How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen?

The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do?

I don't have many hobbies. If I think of hobbies, maybe ping pong. But I don't have a desire to get a ping pong medal.

To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business.

I'm a million miles away, and at the same time I'm right here in your picture frame.

When I was in film school I was learning more theory than practice.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

I was also a congressman. I had decided to run for office and had become a congressman with Queen Latifah.

Get on with life because life gets on without you.