The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

A good liar must have a good memory.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.