There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

Don Quixote is not just Don Quixote

None but the brave deserve the fair.

The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there.

We didn't know each other [with Larry Kramer at Yale], but we had a lot of mutual friends.

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.

When I first met him [David Beckham] I didn't know whether to shake his hand or lick his face.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.