Law is but a heathen word for power.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

It is never too late to be wise.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

On the occasions that he did look up from the page, he would seem as though he were awakening from a dream.

I love comedy, because I like making fun of things even though they are dramatic.

Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that's the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not like you at all.

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.

Walking through the Capitol Building gives you a sense of how it all began here. It was reassuring to see how restrained it was. It was very humble in a way.

The more we reduce the size of our world, the more we shall be its master.

Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And I said, Hello? Trying to make a living?

Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment.

The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race

In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning... In life the loser's score is always zero.