The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.

The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too.

The Spoonsize Boys steal the dollhouse toys while the cat by the fire is curled. Then away they floats in their eggshell boats, down the drains to their underground world.

Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error.

Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.

It wasn't fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn't delivered like the mail.

I think a lot of people in the Conservative party came from other parties. There wouldn't be a Conservative party today if people hadn't come from other parties.

I've learned that having a lot of money is more fun than not having a lot of money, and that once you've got it, it tends to grow all by itself, like a fire.

Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. 'I am not a dog!' he shouted agrily, his gold earrings flashing in the firelight.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn't any consistency.

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

it's better to be happy...if you can..!!

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.

Preaching is not a profession, it's a passion! If a man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all.

Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.

The green shoots of economic spring are appearing once again.

How can you admit that your only hope is divine grace and then throw condemnation at another sinner when you see them struggle?

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

Those Grimm brothers," she said with a sigh, "they'll never amount to anything." And she was right because all they ever became was writers.