Comedy is acting out optimism.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

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

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Moonlight is sculpture.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Give up trying to make me give up

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.