I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.

Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

Some dark Presence watching by my bed, The awful image of a nameless dread ―

During the day, the library is a realm of order.

Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.

Christ, I'm in a Doris Day movie

People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.

If you make a mistake as a prosecutor, your mistakes go home, whereas if you make a mistake defending, they go to jail.

It's so interesting that we think we know the rules to this game, this total hypothetical game called, "Would you," "If you had it to do over." It's not out there.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.