Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

What! All this for a song?

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.

A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.

Her love was old but her methods were original.

The more that you read, the more that you know. The more that you learn, the more places you will go

Religions are many, reason is one, we are all brothers.

As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.

Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery.

It's the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody's got to do it. And if you don't, who will?

You could not have done it better than Hughes.

The audience usually has to be with you, I'm afraid. I always regarded myself as not even preaching to the converted, I was titillating the converted.