Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship

Cherish your existence, for memories become legacies and life can change in an instant.

I think it's important to keep things positive. Sometimes you don't win, and that sucks, and you work on improving.

If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.

I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't hard.

It doesn't make a lot of sense for us to borrow money from the Chinese to go give to another country for humanitarian aid. We ought to get the Chinese to take care of the people.

is this fragile love/ a way/ to say/ goodbye

Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.

Sometimes I look at it [Valley of Violence] and go, "How did we do that?" But it's a credit to Ethan [Hawke], he had done White Fang, so Ethan is like, "Oh God, that's right."

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.