Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Courage is grace under pressure.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.