Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.
Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
I don't care if I'm beautiful; I don't care what I am on the outside. It isn't about the outside.
Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.
My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame.
I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.
We are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory.
I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.
But Tammy Faye calls me, and Ron Jeremy calls me, Erik Estrada sends me a Christmas card every year.
The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.
For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'
My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.