Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?

I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.

The world only remembers the winners.

I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.

It's simple: either you have discipline or you haven't.

Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Self-education is the only possible education the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.

I’d been doing everything to please everyone else and some imaginary me.

I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.

There was a lot of stuff [in Rock of Ages] that had effects in it and I thought it was too smooth. I thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.

Genndy [Tartakovsky] is so good at directing and so wonderful with animation.

Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

Every time somebody says 'Islamophobia' it gives the people who are intimidating cover.

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.

Truth crushed to earth will rise again.