We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.

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.

Togetherness is the key to success: a lone bee makes hardly any honey

The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience.

Properly buried.""Properly kept.""That is the way with witches.""And with all things.

But sometimes that can make a girl so much more appealing. The beauty who doesn't know she’s beautiful.

Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations.

It doesn't matter who we are, how rich we are, how poor we are, famous or not famous, we all have a short window of time here on the planet and what are we going to do with it?

I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.

Money, credit scores, material things don't matter. Life & death, your family & friends, once they're gone it's irreversible. Don't forget.

Klaus Toppmoller: hair like David Gower and dress sense like Austin Powers.