How can I wear the harness of toilAnd sweat at the daily round, While in my soul foreverThe drums of Pictdom sound?

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.

For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.

But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.

What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?

Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.

I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

Heavenly Father you are all I have got. May your unfailing love surround me.

I make movies. I'm not in politics.

The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn't mean that people hate me.

Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.

Enough is equal to a feast.

There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.

Then again maybe there's something that I've been doing in the privacy of my own bedroom my whole life that I think is perfectly normal but is actually illegal in thirty-two states.

At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.

Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it.