When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.

Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.

When I feel the heat, I see the light.

When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.

Once you experience a major loss and survive, everything else after that you lose seems petty and doesn't affect you much.

You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.

I'll always do 'Sherlock' - it's something I'm not going to give up on.

I'm trying to take a positive out the disappointment, but I'm also trying to do what's best for my career as well.

You are losing out because Mexican rapists are taking your job.

I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.

Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.

I don't think it's tough to get there mentally. Your mind is saying, 'You know how to do this.' But your body doesn't always respond.

I'm not too proud of the movies I made as a grownup except for 'That Hagen Girl', which nobody remembers but which gave me a chance to act.

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.