He cracked his crooked smile that made all women swoon except the ones who wanted to slap him. Faye was a fence-sitter on the subject.

Begin each new day with your knees bow in prayer.

(Topper) I’ll story ’em, Fin. I’ll story ’em clean.

She kissed him but he didn't seem to recognize it.

They [Russians] are the adversary, they - we're the adversary they love to hate.

Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted.

But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. Do you get what I'm saying?

I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death.

Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.

[May 1958, on playing Macbeth at age 30 and age 48] When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.