The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Be good and you will be lonesome.

He had had much experience of physicians, and said 'the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not'.

I find that, as a rule, when a thing is a wonder to us it is not because of what we see in it, but because of what others have seen in it. We get almost all our wonders at second hand.

When you are stressed and challenged by hardships just smile through it as frowning won’t help in changing the situation

Nothing that you confess... can make me love you any less.

I stood in the library admiring the huge book collection. There was something inherently calming about being surrounded by books, even their smell and texture was comforting.

The bottom line is that our government is not intelligent about how it pursues the public interest, because its decisions are not informed decisions (and its interest is generally not the public's).

We will never be more than we are meant to be!

You always catch the wrong players.

I read the book and I think, "Well, this is the movie we're going to make," and then someone else reads it, and they take a completely different movie from it. And both are valid.

I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio

I get to swim in the ocean every single day, which is a very, very important thing to do to stay connected.

Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.