I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.

Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.

No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large.

The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.

The less the power, the greater the desire to exercise it.

Whom the mad would destroy, first they make gods.

It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender.

No text, being human creation, is free from flaws – it is the human mind that should be conscientious enough to accept their good elements and discard the bad ones.

She was beautiful, but her youth, the very awkwardness of her age, prevented her from flaunting it.

If this is the will of God, it takes a strange and terrible shape. I did not know that the God of Battles was vile like this. I never knew that a saint could summon torment like this.

It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice.

You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.

The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.

Why aren't you afraid of me? I've seen my death, and you're not it.

I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else