A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'

A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

If you want to get along, go along.

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

I like power and I like to use it.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

Any jackass can kick a barn down but it takes a carpenter to build it.

If I had a partner who asked when I was going to the gym or commented that I was eating too much or asked if I really needed an extra potato, that would make me feel awful. It would be terrible.

I don't know anyone who hasn't woken up one morning, one day in their life and wish they were someone else, or wish they could do something or wish they were capable of something.

I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'

My goal is to embrace the people, the 'natural resources' of Israel, and to build businesses with the creative Israelis.

When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being a ham. An agent was there and she was telling me, 'Hey, do you think you'd want to go out on auditions?' I was like, 'Yeah, what's an audition? Sure, I'll do it.'

Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem.

Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.

I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.

Sammy Sosa? Everybody knew who Sammy was, paid attention to Sammy. I had already signed in pro ball when he had the great homer year with Mark McGwire in '98. But I followed it, and I was proud of him because he was my countryman. There are a lot of great ballplayers from the Dominican, and he's one of the best.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

Growing up, I wasn't allowed dolls, and my brothers weren't allowed guns. I inherited my brothers' clothes. I was never dressed in pink, and they were never dressed in blue; there were none of those rules that people still bizarrely subscribe to.

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.

Dream audaciously. Have the courage to fail forward. Act with urgency.

Like an actor who transforms into the character that they're playing, you can transform into yourself.

I can and I will.

AIDS is no longer just a disease, it is a human rights issue.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

You can feel I am whatever you want to feel I am. God knows who I am, and I know who I am.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.

I'm just always grateful when I meet fans.

Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the present and taking on new ideas what the artists are doing now.

There's the fact that animation is extremely time-consuming, tedious, labor-intensive, and therefore, extremely expensive as an art form to really do it right, to really do full animation.

The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.

It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.