Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

Nobody knows anything.

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.

Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

Feet on the ground, head in the clouds. That's how giants walk.

Joy comes when you turn it over to God to deal with. This is when you will feel the true release from it's weight.

I don't think those who die are any better than those who stay alive. They just look better. They can't mess anything up anymore.

I gazed upon the earth and saw that a body, in its tender faithlessness, had located it in the sky. A splendid scarf of blood, looming above the abyss.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.

I don't know if everybody is ready to hear a woman tell them so-and-so is going to run off left tackle. But you know what? They're going to hear it.

By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!

It is the church's job, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of the state.

I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.