Really? We always have a choice, do we? What about the choices that other people make that end up completely changing your life, not theirs? Where is our choice there, then?

All language is an aspiration to music.

people don't generally believe themselves to be evil. Just strong. And they think that the world owes them something

#4. Spend more time considering areas of agreement than disagreement. The doctrines you share with other true believers are the foundational doctrines

I became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.

Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.

Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.

Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.

If I have things my way, over the next few years, I'm going to be doing a lot more directing and a lot less acting. That will be fun for a while.

Wear a towel instead of a coat, it’s very chic. Or your husband’s boxer shorts with a belt, or something from your grandmother. It’s all about do-it-yourself at the moment.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.