Shoot, every time you get on an animal, you take your life in your hands.
Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
Nothing exists if a store doesn't buy it and you're not able to get it.
I said to the almond tree, "Friend, speak to me of God," and the almond tree blossomed.
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.
There's way easier ways to make money, let's just put it that way.
You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.
The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.