Anybody who has had experience of poetesses knows that they may forgive a punch on the jaw, but never a suggestion that they would be wiser to give up versifying.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre any day of the week that we want to give them their head.

I love hockey. That's actually one of my favorite sports.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else's life.

There are two great things that we need to find in life: one is love, probably the most important, and the second is work, and they compete with one another from time to time.

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.

For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.

I did not want to avoid service. I did realize reservists could be called up, and that it was something that I wanted to do.

Being different is good; embrace it.

As I unclutter my life, I free myself to answer the callings of my soul.