I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.

Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'

When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.

When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.

It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.

It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.

But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

With a gun against my belly I... I always smile.

An aristocrat in morals as in mind.

Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...

How Long We Should Wait?

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

We cannot be caught in the bond of suspicion. We have to carry out what we should be doing with a firm determination.

I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people.

I used to psych myself up before the show and now I do the complete opposite: I psych myself down. It's 12:30 at night, you don't want some guy yelling at you. You want some guy just talking to you.

You just can’t live in Texas/if you don’t have a lot of soul.

There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates for a Bill of Rights and trial by jury.

A man who walks with God, can walk anywhere. Hence, I fear nothing.

Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.