How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.

We need two kinds of acquaintances one to complain to while to the others we boast.

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares were there a danger of their coming true

It is the dread of something happening something unknown and dreadful that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true

There are two things to aim at in life first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets. What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

They played so good it was frightening. And I, of course, being young, was in awe of everything that was going on and rightly so. I mean, it was too good to believe.

I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.

I don't count that relationship with Ricky. It's just like a blip at this point. I had to fall in love with the devil himself to get this sweet angel, Jack.

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are common-sense ways to prevent violence without punishing law abiding gun owners. We owe it to the American people to take real action to reduce gun violence in our communities.

Excellence is a habit acquired by continuous improvement on the little things you do with a firm belief that it's going to be better than before!

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus' famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a 'Jurassic Park.'

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.

One of the most important tasks of the United States House of Representatives is to pass a budget resolution.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

I wouldn't want to be a James Bond.

The best part of touring is the opportunity to make the music. You get to do what you love and have the ability to go out on stage every night and create.

I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.

It's such a rare and rewarding thing to be in control of space and time for two hours a night, to go through a journey and take the audience along. There's nothing quite like it.

There's no substitute for the experience of childbearing or child rearing.

America, in all its institutions, whether it be the family or government, has forgotten and neglected its children.

The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.

My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.

The individual must not be allowed to be overly free, but the country must be entirely free. When the country can exercise freedom, China will have become a mighty and prosperous nation.