The more welfare, the more crime.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it.

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.

It's easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.

To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own.

The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.

Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

The secret is that there is no secret.

Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.

It takes the wool from your eyes about how the world works, to show you that nothing's necessarily fair, and that you might have a hard life.

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

What if what you know isn’t what people want to hear?

I'm sure you would have stopped it if you could have." "In a heartbeat.

After all, I wasn't a bad person. I was just doing my best in what had turned out to be a fairly imperfect life.

Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.

I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community.