My whole thing was this was to immortalize my family's name. To get the people who never would have appreciated him to appreciate him, there's nothing a son could want more.

My mother and father have brought us up to respect everyone with the same equal love and honor them, and you're supposed to honor your profession.

Anything in the entertainment business, there's sharks coming around. It's about staying true to yourself and making sure that, when you look in the mirror, you're happy with what you see.

As an artist, I didn't think I was gonna get an Oscar. I've never said this, but I've never looked at it like, "We're gonna win Best Supporting Actor."

You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't any.

The most delightful advantage of being bald - one can hear snowflakes.

At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

I have not read far in the statutes of this Commonwealth. It is not profitable reading. They do not always say what is true; and they do not always mean what they say.

Blindness enhanced my spiritual life.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.

As far as the stars are from the earth, and as different as fire is from water, so much do self-interest and integrity differ.

Begin with loss and see how the world contradicts you, how the horizon implies that beyond it the water is not empty but full of ships all docking at another island.