Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.

At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

Seek home for rest, for home is best.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give, And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.

The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;For master and servant oft changing is loss.

A fool and his money be soon at debate

God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.

Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.

I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

You have venture capitalists. We view them as experts who also help finance your company and give directions and also some pretty candid discussions about what you have to do better.

The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.

Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.

To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.

I've always been a fan of music where you can hear new things each time you listen.

On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?

I’d have much rather gotten dragged into someone else’s fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people’s emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.

So the first thing in democracy, people must have satisfaction. If you don't have satisfaction, it's not going to work out.

I may be a rebel, but I am not an outsider.