I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but throug...

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent if I didn't quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I'd made enough movie...

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbo...

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of signif...

Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.