Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

I think we have different value systems." —Arthur"Well mine's better." —Ford

One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.

A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.

I'll pretty much try any cheese, but I have found that I prefer young goats and old cows. I don't like gray areas.

Of course you want to do all the research that you can, but it's impossible to take a life and the boundaries of an hour and a half, so there is hope there will be understanding about that also.

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major factors that lead to decline of middle class incomes.

God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.

I had a lot of negativity growing up, so I understand how to block the negativity out.

There is a lot of comedy in magic, and magic going wrong, and also it is a dramatic subject.

The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

I don't see this as Marty [St. Louis] replacing me. I see this as Marty getting the opportunity he deserves.