Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Passion, manners, and 80 ounces of beer will win the heart of any woman. And if it doesn't, you'll be too hammered to remember.

The Veteran's Administration is a disaster, the V.A., it's a disaster.

I'm really glad to have made a movie that way on Superbad, because I learned a lot about what can be done and what the limitations are.

I believe in delegating power.

Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.

External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances.

From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman.

We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge of meaning. We have to extend it.