Character comes before scholarship.

Resisted temptations become lost opportunities.

Riches make cowards of us.

Character is the best security.

All wars are crusades, or we're made to feel they are. That's just what's so wicked about them. We're made to feel - not think - and people can't think when they feel.

There's nothing in all the world as much fun as talk. When you're talking, that is, with the right person.

Curious, isn't it that "talking with the right people" means something so different from "talking with the right person"?

The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.

I've almost come to feel that it doesn't make much difference what you believe in - the thing that's important is a state of belief. It's much better to believe in nonsense than in nothing.

Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.

All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from Washington.

There is no pleasure that I haven't made myself sick on.

tell meof something fiercer than the love with which i gaze upon youof something softer than the tendernesswith which i hold you.

Until you see beauty everywhere, in every face, until then, you are blind.

When you release yourself from the need for approval and control you can stop punishing yourself and others.

Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.

I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.

Every man should measure himself by his own standard. [Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.]

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.

I try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo is my really best experiment with how to eliminate dialogue.