We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.

We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.

As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world.

Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

I own motorized bar stools.

I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature.

What kind of woman irons her husband's sheets? Even the clothes I wear, I just throw 'em in the dryer with some golf balls.

How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise

I boxed 15 years in a club.

If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.

Communism is trying to take the world by force. But God will take the world by love.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on.

If you don't know one thing about Kid Rock it's that he's loyal. His band has been together for a long time, he stands by his friends, and the guy still lives in his home state of Michigan.

When I want to work on my material, I go to Benihana or the barbershop.

I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten ghettoized in these sort of places... I'm thinking women in action, comic books, or like the Tony Soprano of women. We need some complex roles.

Film is very condensed.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

I want to make a difference, I want to make a change, inspire a revolution, to create, reinvent, and rearrange.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of.

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.