We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned.

Well done is better than well said.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

You can do anything you set your mind to.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

He can switch from one view to another with frightening ease. I think it is a sign of being accustomed to such power that the truth does not matter because you cannot be contradicted.

Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.

Humanity is a community, I don't care if your black, your white, your Christian, your Jewish, your Muslim. We are all one community and heroes really make us see what's possible at any given time.

I play John Wayne in every part regardless of the character, and I've been doing okay, haven't I?

I do think there must be centralized leadership in the sense that, say, in our struggle all of the leaders coordinate their efforts, cooperate and, and at least evince a degree of unity.

True courage is born only when it is accompanied by justice.

Coen brothers movies are not always what life looks like but it's definitely what life feels like.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

I feel terribly vulnerable and 'not-myself' when I'm not writing.

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.