There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.

America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.

It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Everyone has to have hope in their life, or they will eventually become your enemy.

All water is holy water.

Am I like the optimist who while falling ten stories from a building says at each story "I'm all right so far"?

What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.

I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.

With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I'm running out of chances.

I like to make movies about how people actually live, realistically.

The primary reason for failure is that people do not develop new plans to replace those plans that didn't work.

Like all bullies, they’re cowards underneath the swagger

Change your mind and it will change your life. If nothing around you changes, changes the things that are around you.