It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

I remember little of the Yukon or what I wrote there.

It isnt the mountain ahead that wears you out its the grain of sand in your shoe.

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France one could lead a free life to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from ones neighbors.

Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.

I love England and I love English culture, particularly English pop culture.

I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents - not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment.

Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.

Traditionally, art has been for the select few.

I quite like some of the movies that have many characters in them.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Marriage is more than finding the right person. It is being the right person.

'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction.

I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

People who annoy people; they are the luckiest people in the world.

With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; it is what it is. It's an adventure film.

Every single day, do something that makes your heart sing.

A 'multicultural society' is a logical and physical impossibility.

Love is floating somewhere in the beautiful horizon with an equal wave length with same frequency of intense feelings.

This is a place where you really are what you achieve in Houston, and that's a tremendous boon to this town. I think you'll find people who have succeeded because of that kind of open culture.

I live to laugh, and I laugh to live.

I looked at but was not allowed to touch Ai Weiwei's 'Sunflower Seeds' at the Tate. The film of making them was really moving.

The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress.

Everybody plays back-to-backs.

Trejo is one of the oldest boxing gyms in Cuba; it's outdoor, and every great champion the country has produced has passed through and was forged in the open air.

I'm Brian a lot more than I'm Paul Walker, which is awesome. When I hear, 'Hey Paul Walker!' my hair stands up on the back of my neck. It's uncomfortable. But when I hear, 'It's Brian!' it's cool. I like Brian.

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends.

I like to play people who are underdogs and misfits. People who are not on a straight and narrow path. That's exciting for me.