Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

There is no adversity that cannot bear a gift and no gift that cannot bring adversity.

See, 'A Time to Kill' was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Energy is the prime mover of all we see and know. You change the energy and your body has to respond.

My unconditional sure thing is that I don't have one.

the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.

My killer instinct is so strong that lions call me to take lessons.

Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black.

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.