Time's flying wheel leaves little trace behind.

On every thing are traced decay and change. Look! how the shifting seasons slip away.

Go and walk with Nature; thou wilt find Full many a gem in her enchanted cup.

The rich pearl of life, Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee...

There's a moment in fighting when strength of muscle ain't everything because enemy has already given you enough energy to gain the victory.

...it is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.

If the president Donald Trump thinks he can fire Deputy Attorney General Ron Rosenstein and replace him with someone who will shut down the investigation, he's in for a rude awakening.

The biggest challenge for me in every film is believing that what I have to say is important enough to have lots of people collaborate to make a whole movie. I work on this belief every day.

When you do a movie, it's like going on a journey. It's really like the director is the captain of the ship, and that energy, everybody feels.

write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.

Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.

Everybody has problems.

I'm sorry, but I stand by my decision. I am now a member of the elite club of people that have fought a professional team mascot. You sir, are not in that club.