To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.

The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.

An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.

Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.

Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]

For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift.

Doing the tough things sets winners apart from losers.

The opening scene in A New Hope, when you see the huge ship, it goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on... that is like a joke of awesomeness.

The worst of all hobbies are those that people think they can get money at. They shoot their money down like corn out of a sack then.

This year is very difficult for me to run after I after I lose my fiancee. I'm not preparing very well. I have sadness in my heart.

I started in this industry [television] as a kid doing commercials. Ever since I was introduced to it, I loved it.

A miracle no longer seems to me a manifestation of extraordinary power, but an extraordinary manifestation of ordinary power. God is always showing himself.

It's time for conservative Americans to right the ship again.

In the business of acting, those are the actors that make the trains run on time, you know? There's nothing without them.

The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha, It held the shivering, the shaken limbs, Then bathed its body in the leaping lake.

The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.