Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it.

She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart.

If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?

Keep out of this, " Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody.""You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.

We cannot know love if we remain unable to surrender our attachment to power, if any feeling of vulnerability strikes terror in our hearts. Lovelessness torments.

Horses are calmer people. They also don't throw things at cats.

I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.

I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

I believe that the way to a man's heart is not through his stomach. It's a little further south.

From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results.

It is unimaginable that the United States would have to contribute hundreds of billions of dollars and highly unlikely that we would have to contribute even tens of billions of dollars.

Every day in every way we are leaving our mark.

I was really wanting to be a rock star. I was saying, "I am going to have a fancy car, I got to have fancy clothes, and I have got to play the whole role." Obviously, I meant business.

The key to success isn't much good until one discovers the right lock to insert it in.