Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back.

Time is not important, but art is.

Thank god Shonda Rhimes had this agenda to make television look like life, to make it look like the real world.

The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.

You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you're down.

So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. They don't map.

My body is but wax and wick for flame. When the candle burns out, the light shines elsewhere.

I never really make a film unless I feel like it's going to be personal and intimate, but also relevant to the audience.

How ridiculous it is to waste our lives experimenting with those things for which we already have the answers!