When one must, one can.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.

When one must, one can.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Well, who wouldn't want to work with Tom Hanks?

Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.

Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.

Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.

If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.

Shakespeare is definitely my first love.

That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false. They're real story elements that the filmmakers were hoping to introduce to the audience in a darkened movie theater.

When I go out or to an event, I'll wear blue jeans and a shirt. And sometimes when I go to an event I'll wear camouflage. It depends what kind of mood I'm in.

Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else - our time, our love, our resources.

Nothing meant for you will run away from you.

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

When being dishonest people can still tell the truth. Be mindful of the treacherous that do not lie.

Obviously, there is diversity, but Europe is a union of diversity.

I don't think I should be giving out relationship advice! You have to accept each other for who they are and what they will be able to modify in their behavior and what you can modify in your behavior to create a better relationship.

There's plenty to read about keeping your sanity while raising children, but it's all common-sense stuff about task division and taking breaks and the relentlessly repeated magic of date night with your spouse. What's missing is some 'tude.

Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place.

If Yucca Mountain had not been designated as a dumpsite for radioactive waste in 1987, it might easily have become a scenic overlook on the long drive between Tonopah and Las Vegas.

There's none so deaf as those who will not hear

If you present your dog to a veterinarian with the instruction to put him to sleep, you would normally mean something very different than you would upon taking your wife or husband to an anesthesiologist with the same words.

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

The U.S.-China relationship, of course, has elements of both cooperation and competition.