Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.

We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.

Before you organize you ought to analyze and see what the elements of the business are.

I'm not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that's not me.

Instead of talking yourself out of your future start talking yourself into it.

The Masonic aspect of Hollywood is so bizarre.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.

There's a difference between, you know, God loves unconditionally in my feeling and religion loves conditionally. Religion spends an awful lot of time dictating who God can love and can't love.