Violence is the most elemental truth of life. It's the central shaper of history, the ultimate determiner of whether A or B is going to get his way.

A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.

History is a story of violence at work. It all comes down to the old saw that, however much you can gain with a kind word, you can gain more with a kind word and a gun.

If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it.

The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.

He would know a number of grown women in his life who did not possess even a small portion of the grace his middle sister owned at the age of fourteen.

The only things you can ever truly own cannot be bought with money.

Some of us are always in the borderlands no matter where we might be on the map.

History is a record of human nature in action.

Pride has traditionally been regarded as the foremost of the Seven Deadly Sins, but it has rather obviously been overtaken by Greed.

There's an old saying, " Buck said. "A hundred things can go wrong in a holdup, and if you can think of fifty of them you're a damn genius.

Give yourself permission to dream, to choose, to decide.

In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains are alive all over.

I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.

I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.

We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire.

What you do for your Self, you do for another. What you do for another, you do for the Self. This is because you and the other are one. And this is because...there is naught but You.

Actually, I comb my hair quite often. Of course, I use an electric toothbrush.

I know my heart will never be the same But I'm telling myself I'll be okay

When people think you are speaking against them as a group, they try to shut it down out here.