Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.

Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.

Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.

I do love comedy, I have to say. That's one of the greatest things about being an actor: You get to try new things and play around in different genres.

Snowden and NSA leaders should be brought together face-to-face for questioning in public by a congressional investigatory committee, with both parties allowed to make their points and to counter the assertions of the other. If Snowden is lying, it will come out. If the NSA is lying, it will come out.

Tech is all about building human connections.

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.

I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.

The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?

I learn from experience.

Getting fired is hard.

Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.

I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.

All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.

There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together.

Liberty never had to file bankruptcy, thanks to God's blessings, but we did go through tough times and painful debt restructuring in the 1990s.

Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.

I have to make things right with Tiger first before anything else.

I don't like paying taxes, but I like sleeping at night.

We've turned film into such an industry that we pursue naturalism just by shaking the camera and cutting the film to ribbons to provoke a bogus sense of documentary. But we haven't done the homework. To push the depth that the Actor's Studio did or the Russian theatres did with their actors is to rehearse, to spend time, to dig, to excavate.

Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.

Morals are a matter of private agreement decency is of public concern.

Allow yourself a few parties, but be mindful the rest of the time.

A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed and strong families with a man and a woman bonded together for life always have been and always will be the key to such families.

In 1986, human nature in America started to change. That year, 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' based in Chicago, became nationally syndicated, and the country entered the beginning stages of a quiet cultural revolution.

Most management systems have to do with establishing trust and getting people to cooperate. They're not really about expertise or science.

I was in a bookstore one afternoon, and I stumbled across this book called 'A Guide to Film Schools.' I always loved movies growing up and had never even conceived that it was something you could do for a living. Realizing most of them were in Los Angeles and knowing that was warm, I ended up applying.