I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

Friendship and money: oil and water.

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

A bad salesman will automatically drop his price. Bad salesmen make me sick.

The city had defeated her, just like they said it would. Like some overcrowded party, no one had noticed her arrival, and would notice if she left.

I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.

If a good actor wants a role, they'll do whatever it takes to get the part. Directors are the same. We do 'meetings', not auditions: that tells you a whole lot more about an actor, too.

I would love to have children, yes. Maybe even adopt them. I'm not sure that I should pass on my genes.

Who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe?

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people

I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.