Man puts manacles on his fellow-man; God never.

Patience is passion tamed.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

Share a book and you'll make a friend!

The emptiness where I used pain to fill the hole no longer controls me, no longer calls me because of you.

I think Tim Matheson is amazing and I think he's amazing in this - I haven't seen the film [Killing Reagan] since we shot it, but I think he's just incredible.

Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I’m a happy man.

When you truly commit in your life, you start receiving more than you could imagine.

Quit demagoguing. It's not true.

Don't blame it on the sunshine. Don't blame it on the moonlight. Blame it on the boogie.

What you do makes you better at what you think. What you think makes you more effective at what you do.

To accept reality is only to encourage it.

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.