The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

Photography must be integrated with the story.

The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in everygeneration may not come that far, but none comes further.

I may never be rich or famous but I've created a whole world, where anything I want is possible what more could anyone want to achieve?

We are in a boy recession, " Eugene repeats. "There's been a sudden, drastic decrease in the male population at this school. And I'm gonna take advantage of it.

I just looked at the calendar and realized- my days are numbered

Rule No. 1. Make a great product. Rule No. 2. Don't forget rule No.1.

Our thoughts and actions must in no way be determined by the approval or disapproval of our time, but by the binding obligation to a truth which we have recognized.

I won't let anyone stand between me and my brother.

Now I don't get upset by unpleasant things, I don't play the victim, and I'm always ready to come to terms with life.

When we're talking about a trillion dollars of taxpayer money, "trust me" just isn't good enough.

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.