In the end, the focus on safety should be credited to the entire firearms-owning community, the “gun culture” if you will.

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.

Never sign a valentine with your own name.

The Academy Awards for people in Hollywood is like the Super Bowl, the presidential inauguration and winning the NBA championship rolled up into one.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

I was never ambitious to be a good actor. I just love doing it and I seem to be quite suited for it.

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.

Only the man who can impose discipline on himself is fit to discipline others or can impose discipline on others.

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.