We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.

For any given doctrine that one wants to believe, there is never a shortage of arguments by which to support it.

I love food, and I'm a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.

Somehow, I never feel like good things b'long to me till I pass 'em on to somebody else.

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

Let's hit the joke once and move on to the next joke and just keep it where we have as many jokes per square inch as possible.

A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.

Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't go to college or you shouldn't finish your degree, but sometimes people have a very clear vision about what they want to do, and they just want to get on with it.

I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

The greatest and the hottest fires that ever were on earth are but ice in comparison to the fire of hell.