The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.

A bonus: You don't have to diet to direct.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.

Being in Hawaii, it's almost impossible not to be fit, I think.

All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites.

The thing that breaks my heart about [Dennis Wilson] is that he was very naïve from the beginning to the end.

I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went 'oooh'.

Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot

The smile broke across his face the way the sunrise set the clouds on fire.