I very much admired Lancaster. George Clooney reminds me of him today. Not all the macho, swinging around that Burt used to do, but the courage. You know where you stand with men like that.

I always felt it was necessary to keep up some kind of communication with other people.

Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand.

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.

It's OK if Tim McGraw goes and does a movie, and it's OK if Justin Timberlake does a movie, but it's not OK for an actor to become a singer. I never understood that.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, that was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel.

Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.