Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.

We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions.

To be infinite, lose yourself in infinite love.

It is far easier to live an excellent life among your friends, when you are putting your best foot forward and are conscious of public opinion, than it is to live for Christ in your home.

Your love for beauty has been perverted, repressed and savaged by hateful and controlling elements in the world.

What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?

Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.

I'm a personality - like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character.

You are the architect of the memories that others will have about you.

When people cared about each other, they always found a way to make it work.

In this day and age, where you have a lot of comic book movies made every day, and most of them are really good boys, it's important to have a couple bad boys out there, too.

You started like a saint and now you've finished like a thief