Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does

When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off.

How ignorant can you be to hurt another person? You cannot hurt someone else without hurting yourself first.

maybe here, in dauntless, bravery is the highest form of wisdom. the acknowledgement that life can and should be lived without fear

You’re playing with a blow torch, andit’s pointed at your head. Think about what you’re saying.

I sing sometimes for the war that I fight, 'Cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

Don't limit yourself because you are a woman because you can do exactly the same that a guy could do.

There is no remedy for the inefficiency of public management.

My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is, rather, to convince the reader that all methodologies, even the most obvious ones, have their limits.

To a certain extent. I'm a fan of rehearsal on the day [of the shoot], more than getting together a week beforehand.