Just curious. Does the president of the United States have any advice for other teenage boys in America? Wounded warriors, for example . . .

The only reason people lock their car doors when Obama walks by is they are afraid he'll tax them to death...

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

...simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner.

It is okay to fall, but not okay to stay on the ground.

The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It's not going to do me any good.

I've always been inspired by beautiful interiors.

You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us.

The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners.

We all would like to struggle like Tiger is struggling.

I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.

Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.

I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.

I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.

The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.