It's simple: either you have discipline or you haven't.

I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.

The world only remembers the winners.

I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.

Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?

Marry, don't marry, ' Auntie Aya says as we unfold layers of dough to make an apple str

If you actually want something and are really passionate about it, you will get it no matter what.

Monsters are real and ghosts are real too they live inside us and sometimes they win.

I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that's fine with me. I don't mind at all. Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

Classic music is th' kind that we keep thinkin'll turn into a tune.

Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.

Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches.

Movies and life become a little more symmetrical when you start asking for and looking for connections.

Falsehoods border on truths.

I had said that when the first Bush got elected that I would leave the country. And when the second Bush wasn't even elected properly.