To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.

There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.

It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

Every time a scientist publishes a good piece of work, she helps to maintain and raise the standards for what is true. We have to keep chipping away.

She had a very inconvenient heart. It always insisted on feeling things ever so deeply.

Be the one to stand out in the crowd, Be the one to go where they’d rather not.Beautiful things don’t beg for a chance to glowThey throw out their lights and just shine out loud!

Don't let people get the best of you they say what they want but don't let that distract you from accomplishing your goals.

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

You have to believe in them now. Christ believed in you when there was nothing to believe in.

That's why you bring in a veteran player. You never know when a player goes down, a guy's got to step up and play.