With a gun against my belly I... I always smile.

Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'

When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.

When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.

It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.

It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.

I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.

But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

An aristocrat in morals as in mind.

Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...

God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I'm just excited to be a part of the movie [Star Wars]. It's always the particulars that are the most exciting.

There are people out there with three jobs and small children. Being an actor is a walk in the park compared to working as a cleaner overnight. I'm lucky I'm not plucking chickens.

London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

Of course no president, Democratic or Republican - no president - is above the law, as neither are you, nor I, nor anyone.

To live and to laugh require a reason. But dancing is so close to one's guts that it has no reason and yet it needs none; it's physical, and as a source of good cheer it is end endless.