It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Armchair hater, I wouldn't piss on your coffin But when I see your picture I draw dicks on it.

America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.

Marriage is such hard work. And it's full of rage and real human drama.

It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood.

I’ve often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently.

I think my films kind of walk this line that Im proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.

We know that President Obama and his accomplishments, that there's a lot of unfinished business there.

Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy

And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.