He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school year is made of decades not of weeks and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age.

Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it's shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn't he? When a son cuts somebody's throat the mother only sees it's possible for a misguided angel to act like a devil - and she's entirely right about that!

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

Beauty shouldn't be about changing yourself to achieve an ideal or be more socially acceptable. Real beauty, the interesting, truly pleasing kind, is about honoring the beauty within you and without you. It's about knowing that someone else's definition of pretty has no hold over you.

Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

I'm just being myself. There is not an ounce of my being that believes any of that crap that they say. We can't be feminine and be feminists and be successful? I want to be a f-ing feminist and wear a f-ing Peter Pan collar. So f-ing what?

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

My mom and dad always taught acting, so instead of getting me babysitters, they would just bring me to class.

The future of America is not an entitlement. We have been given a treasure chest of gifts and opportunities, but some people are being left behind, and success is not sustainable unless it is shared.

Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.

If you watch 'SNL,' any time there's this thing with everyone singing, I'm, like, the one person who just has a straight line of dialogue because I can't sing to save my life.

Once you become the story off-screen, you are less likely to be the onscreen one.

Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.

When I'm president of the United States, we're going to have a VA that cares more about our veterans than about the bureaucrats who work at the VA.

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

Sometimes people think they know you and they go, 'Hey!' and then they realize that they've just seen you on the television. That's kind of funny sometimes.

Writing is a journey of discovery because until you start, you never know what will happen, and you can be surprised by what you do - expect the unexpected!

I just finished Narc, which was a really heavy duty, raw, independent.

When you poll all of the economists, uh, across America that I think are intellectually honest they would all, or maybe not all, but 95% of them 96% of them would say you know we really have got a powerful economy.

I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene and it was great for a few years. Then, it was totally co-opted by the studios. Now, it's become very corporate, the independent scene.

If I can be a role model, or if I can maybe make another manager play a young player coming through rather than buy a player, that's incredible.

It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.

I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.

They've said everything about me that they could: racist, Marxist, rightist, homophobic, sex change - I don't know what else they could come up with.

Now, with Annie gone, I'm looking for a new dog. I have a lot of duck hunting planned, and I can't imagine doing it without a dog. I'm 84, so I won't get a puppy.

When someone's really good at encapsulating human emotion and putting it out in a form that can reach a variety of people, that's going to have a big effect when he's no longer there.