My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.

...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

Some men just want to watch the world burn

I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.

Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought: "That's what I want to do."

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.

To have memories, happy or sorrowful, is a blessing, for it shows we have lived our lives without reservation.

In order to achieve anything, you must be brave enough to fail.

We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.

A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.

Being Vice President is difficult. Don't make it tougher.

It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.

But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?

The gospel casts out a rope to hale sinners to land; but the sinner has no hands to lay hold on it; his very faith must be wrought in him by the Spirit.

A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes— and by a stanza a city is blown to bits.