The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the best good of the citizen.

A struggle for existence is not a decent living. A man or woman or child may die of starvation in a city teeming with plenty. Only human life is concerned.

Lucy, you're as transparent as a pane of glass, and there's not a speck of guile to be seen in you. Yet in a way you're a mystery to me.

Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers.

By the time I got to high school I knew what I was gonna do. Mainly because I looked around and saw there wasn't much else I was able to do. I was a criminal. I was a juvenile delinquent.

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

Folks, Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from Alaska. Mitt Romney talks like he's only seen Russia by watching 'Rocky IV.'

The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.

The more I've acted, I've realised that I have a) no control of and b) no way of really quite understanding how people react to anything I do, or any movie I do.

A story? No. No stories, never again.

I didnt go to film school, i went to films

Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened.