A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

American high school culture was impenetrable to me, and very cliquey: you had the Hispanics, the African Americans, the surfer guys and the goths and the immigrants. The jocks and the surfers got the girls. By the time I'd got to grips with it, I'd graduated.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.

Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.

'Behind The Candelabra' is an HBO movie. It's the Liberace story. Michael Douglass and Matt Damon. I play a small part in it. I play a choreographer who introduces, brings Matt Damon to Las Vegas for the first time.

I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.'

You would probably think that rock music is an urban phenomena, but the main reason for doing it in '68 was so that we could play music very loud any time of the day or night without getting complaints from the neighbours.

Music teaches people to work together, which is maybe one of the most important skills.

I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'

I've been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.

While the war in Iraq was raging, I spent some time in neighbouring Jordan, meeting with Iraqi refugees who fled their country to try to find some place of safety. I interviewed many families about what had happened to them and what they did as a result.

For any trade deal to move forward, there has to be agreement.

Tibet is a beautiful and richly endowed region of our great motherland.

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100,000 short.

Everything on my body turned real dark. My toes, under my feet, inside my mouth, under my tongue - I just turned really dark. I'm still here, but it's gonna take a while to get back to normal. Chemo kills all the good cells along with the bad.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?

Playing a robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor, because you have to take all your innate emotional responses and completely suppress them. Even the way you walk is affected.

My parents have sailed around the world; they know what can happen and that it's not always fun, but because I want to do it so much, they agreed and supported me.

It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.