All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

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

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

Humility is attentive patience.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

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

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.