Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

Truly, God works in mysterious ways. The wheels of His mercy and justice move quietly, but they do move.

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

[on Emilio Estevez] Truly, my first love.

When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.

It's great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn't great is lying to you.

No Daimon gets out of here alive. (They hit the invisible wall and rebounded off it.) Man. It really makes you feel for the bug on the windshield, doesn’t it? (Acheron)

And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body--her life.

I love working with technology because it allows me to follow my imagination and to invent new things.

Effective leaders know that resources are never the problem; it's always a matter or resourcefulness.