This is a very fickle and faithless generation.

I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that.

I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.

My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part, I am the innocentest person of them all, only I have been sworn against by perjured persons.

I have been sworn against by perjured and wicked people.

My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.

We are neither just brains floating around nor just hearts bouncing about.

The way I see it, you can live your life as is, continuing to feel like an underdog, or you can step up. Be someone who matters, and make a change.

One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.

Why don't we bring everyone up to be caring and compassionate, to believe that we are connected with everyone and everything around us?

My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was.

I came out of independent film, that's my roots. I used my independent film as a laboratory, and used what I could discover in that laboratory.

Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean and where they lead.

I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives.

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way 'round.