The conscience of a people is their power.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Silence is a source of Great Strength.

I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.

She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.

So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.

Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?

A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean - make sure they know what they mean!

There are very few courses around Detroit I haven't played

We all hope we have something else to do. We're going to be unemployed actors. It's a consistent state of being a professional actor, in my experience.

But if you want to change the world, don't be afraid of the circuses.