No really sensible person ever remembers enough poetry to recite it.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

Photography must be integrated with the story.

The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

Look at the woebegone walk of him. Eaten a bad egg. Poached eyes on ghost.

Travel not only stirs the blood. . . It also gives strength to the spirit.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title

Those two are a fastidious couple. She's fast and he's hideous.

Whatever my life looks like, I want it to be real and big and full. I want when, if I get hit by a car, I want to know that I have deep and real friendships, people to visit me in the hospital.

Fire on anything that moves on the river.

In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.

I've been practicing yoga very seriously for a little over a year and I believe that helped my voice and affected my singing.

As an actor, it's better to just be more loose and give yourself over. That's always fun. It's fun to just let go and be somebody else.