We had an awfully good ball club that was capable of beating anybody. They were that good.

While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live.

Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.

Ah, dearer than my soul. Dearer than light, or life, or fame.

We had an awfully good ball club that was capable of beating anybody. They were that good.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.

One of my resolutions is to quit smoking. I've tried for the past two years, but this year I am going to stick with it.

The past is what the past is.

Your normal Wall Street big-swinging Richard has enough of a lingering moral compass to at least tell himself that his wizardry benefits somebody or something besides himself. You know, his cleverness makes capital markets more efficient. It provides credit to productive enterprise. Whatever.

The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important.

I know it's corny, but laughter is a two-way gift, and hearing people laugh just warms me through and through.

Channel your energy. Focus.

Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sesne of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature.

Man, it's hard to beat having gotten to play Superman. But where do you go from there? Aren't careers supposed to culminate in a role like that? And because I'm a big fat geek, as long as there's stuff I'm excited about - and isn't that really the definition of geek? - there'll always be roles I'd love to play.

Punishment is not for revenge but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Visas represent one bureaucratic obstacle, so to say and, if removed, might increase the inflow of Russian money into the Czech economy. And not only Russian money, but Russian tourists, Russian entrepreneurs and so on.

I once said to someone, 'If I could shave my head and wear no makeup and get a part just on my talent, I would be the happiest person in the world.'

Nannies love working in our house because they never know who's gonna walk through the door.

Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?

We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.

Not even a Harvard School of Business can make greed into a science.

I'm a tomorrow's person. I don't collect memorabilia.

Trying to decipher where President Obama really stands on free trade can be like trying to trace the U.S.-Mexico border with a Google map. There are words, and there are actions - but there is mostly that long squiggly line in between.

I see a film or a TV series or a play as being this machine. It sounds quite robotic, in its description, but it's basically a machine and you're just one of the cogs that goes in it. You're not the biggest one, and you're not the smallest one. Everyone's the same size.

My father loved people, children and pets.

Man always dies before he is fully born.

The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

If you don't go talk to your boss, if you don't go talk to your mentors, if you don't go talk to people who can influence where you want to be, then they don't know. And they're not mind readers.

The seeds of a redwood are released from cones that are about the size of olives. The heartwood of the tree is a dark, shimmery red in color, like old claret. The wood has a lemony scent and is extremely resistant to rot.

The funny thing about firemen is night and day they are always firemen.