Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

There is nothing interesting about just seeing me doing the show then seeing the fans and how much people love me.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.

Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.

In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed.

One of the most difficult things for any artist to do is create a world that looks both completely alien yet real and possible.

A weed is a plant out of place.

Applied mathematics will always need pure mathematics just as anteaters will always need ants.

If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.

I set myself that decision, otherwise I'm driving an opinion at you, and I think that would be treating you like you're an idiot. I don't want to force-feed you my opinion.