What chilling blows we suffer-thanks to our conflicting wills-whenever we show these mortal men some kindness.

The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.

But heroes, at times, had to be fools.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain, you must either be a god or a corpse.

There's always a parallel story. The paths not taken go on in our heads.

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion to the lowliest work in the lowliest way of life?

I'm from Jerz, the home of: "I could've swore I parked my car right here!"

[L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.

Managers who don't lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don't manage don't know what's going on. It's a phony separation that people are making between the two.

Big feature films are another world.

Bill Clinton is the guy that said, "The era of Big Government is over." Whether or not he meant it or not, he said it.

To all the worryworts out there who said super PACs were going to lead to a cabal of billionaires secretly buying democracy: wrong! They are publicly buying democracy.