My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price.

What God hath wrought?

The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.

If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.

My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price.

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.

Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn't have to.

And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.

There is little evidence that other animals judge the appropriateness of actions that do not directly affect themselves.

The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.

I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

I call Sally Field 'America's Mother!' She is incredible to watch.

If we lived in a world with no fear, then you would never discover the courage you have within.

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

Doing Good is a simple and universal vision. A vision to which each and every one of us can connect and contribute to its realisation. A vision based on the belief that by doing good deeds, positive thinking and affirmative choice of words, feelings and actions, we can enhance goodness in the world.

If I would characterize my life, I would say that I was a very lucky actor who came into very lucky times, and got to Hollywood, and was put under contract by Warners in the very last days of the studio contract era, and was privileged to go through that time which is gone now.

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

The ones who appear to be unemotional are in real the most emotional ones.

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

Sometimes you learn more from films that aren't terribly successful and, indeed, sometimes you learn more from real disasters than you do from the ones that succeed.

A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky - unbidden - and seems like a thing of wonder.

I've read the 'Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy' at least once a year since I was twelve years old.

Of course the Japanese and Peruvian fish are different, but it's the same Pacific Ocean. They are different, but I know fish.

He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.