Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

I think, therefore I'll think.

The only thing that I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.

There is always something about the villains that I'm able to play, quote unquote, that isn't villainous.

When God accepts a sinner, He is, in fact, only accepting Christ. He looks into the sinner's eyes, and He sees His own dear Son's image there, and He takes him in.

My daily routine is to make every day the best day.

Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

We are now the proud owners of a white boy. Now we have to shop in the caucasian isle and get sunscreen, mayonaise and mild salsa because the other ones really hawt!

I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code.

Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.