Some people get lifetimes, some get moments. I’ve got to tell myself it’s what you do with what you get that counts.

The story was told, generation by generation, in song and in story, until time misted it into myth and legend. But some believed, as legends brought comfort.

Brother, when beauty falls into your hand, you hold on to it while you can. You could be dead tomorrow.Well, that’s... inspiring.

Crying is part of the adventure

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.

The present is an eternal now.

I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.

In those days the best painkiller was ice; it wasn't addictive and it was particularly effective if you poured some whiskey over it.

There's many more films being made in America than there are in Australia. You make four hundred and fifty films a year, we make twenty-five.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come in and stop it.

Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does.