Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

An atom is mostly made up of empty space. If you remove the empty space from every atom, the entire world's human population could fit inside a sugar cube.

Just because we live in a world of chaos and madness doesn’t mean we have to subscribe to that sort of behavior.

Never give a good politician time to pray.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as thing but as a process, not as a noun but as a verb.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

I usually read a script from an audience perspective first, and then look more closely at the character only.

I went to the movie this weekend with a gun. And surprise, surprise, I didn't kill anybody!

Your personality is what makes you sexy.

There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination.