Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.

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.

The path of meditation and the path of our lives altogether ha to do with curiosity, inquisitiveness.

How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.

Only science can hope to keep technology in some sort of moral order.

To be in a movie directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and a movie that had a large budget... I got a taste of what really good filmmaking could be.

There is a language barrier between vets and the civilian population. They speak different languages.

Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.

God alone knows absolute Truth.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.