The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

Common sense is very uncommon.

We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.

Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

I've done a lot of movies, and you really never know. You do a movie and you think that it's great, and then you see it and it doesn't work.

What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.

Your mind is your servant, your body is your vehicle and your soul is your residence.

More than a career, I feel that I've got a function. I see things in a much more holistic way. Some people bake the bread, and some people write the songs.

There are dedicated actors and there are people now who only stay famous for putting on weight, losing it, then putting it on again.

I like to do movies, because I love becoming different characters, and telling different stories through different eyes, and affecting someone's life in one way or another.

If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.

Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.

If you say to one flower, 'Grow,' but you water another, the first one won't grow.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.