If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.

A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.

[History is] petrified imagination.

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

Liquor - you can make it illegal but you can't make it unpopular.

You can always judge a man by what he eats, and therefore a country in which there is no free lunch is no longer a free country.

Information had become a critical tool that you can use to raise your bar across every barrier towards excellence. Deny this fact and maintain your bar wherever it was without even a millimeter lift.

Everybody loses a couple, and you either pack it up and go home or you keep on fighting.

Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.

You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself.

The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP.

Impossible situations are our specialty.

Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art - it's a fun group activity.

I live for Pilates reformer class. I go at least three times a week. It's a great way to lengthen your muscles, stretch, and kind of relax your mind.

We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.