I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

Photography must be integrated with the story.

The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

I would have played street cop number three if it meant getting to work with Chris Nolan.

For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.

For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it.

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

I don't need to improve the look of my own if I don't even know what it looks like.

I have yet to get sued. My father thinks I should get liability insurance.

He was better than any drug, any remedy for her illness.

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.