Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!

It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.

The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

There's no, 'Oh my God, somebody else is gonna come back and take my spot.' I wanna have a spot that's my spot, that nobody can take away, because nobody else is me.

I always pick what I consider to be good scripts.

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.

The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.

He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept the strangeness of others.

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn.

Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.