A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality.

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant who appears behind me and offers me a beverage.

Seize the day, then let it go.

Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.

It's hard - it's difficult to tell when your buzz is at its peak.

I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.

I've never dropped anyone I believed in.

If the person who says they love you is unwilling to sacrifice for you it ain't love.

I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock n roll and ex-wives. In that order.