It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

In the art of magic be quick of sleight and slow of climax.

A gentleman willNever allow a ladyTo feel less than grand.

I've got a love affair with Harley-Davidson. One of my earliest photos with my dad is of him holding me as a baby on his bike.

I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.

Let slip the dogs of champions.

I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.

Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.

No one asks public men to be strictly moral, but they must seem to be well-behaved.

The influence of woman will ever be exercised directly in all good or evil. Give her, then, such light as she is capable of receiving.

It's such a huge endeavor putting a full movie together, especially an independent movie. I tend to kind of do them when they come my way more than something than I go out and actively pursue.