Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.

Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink.

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.

I can't actually see myself putting make-up on my face at the age of sixty, but I can see myself going on a camel train to Samarkand.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.

If we go back to the heyday of that era I think we will see replicated again the extraordinary human damage that we as a nation have suffered from.

The good writer and the good actor are always searching for what is essential. It is a never-ending task because what is essential is always elusive and, therefore, fascinating.

As he watches the sun rise, what grieves him is that he failed her. He thinks of the terror she felt. They tell him it was quick, as if that will somehow confine the horror.

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

You have everything you need inside of you to create anything in your life that you desire.

A worshipping Church or a prayer group is a magnet that draws the Lord and His people to connect with each other!

He stretched out on the bed and was suddenly struck by how utterly lonely he was.

The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

...the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.

The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.

I feel like finding the balance is the struggle with making music in general.

Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances that man and God can dream up.