Children key off their parents’ reaction more than the argument or physical discipline itself.

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.

You cannot taste a song but you can feel the tune relishing your heart where strings of music belong.

Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.

When I rode the train west, I went looking for something, but I didn't see anything wonderful.I didn't see anything better than what I already had.Home.

As a sunbeam perishes when cut off from the sun, so man apart from God would pass back into the void of nothingness from which he first leaped at the creative call.

I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds.

Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students need to unlearn what one has acquired.

What can be greater to life than to understand its meaning.

I've done the voice for the Hulk for the animated cartoon.

Now is my time. Everything I've done up to this point is just a warm up. This is where it all begins.

The one thing that I'm in charge of in this wedding is the food