I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

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

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

I’ve only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They’re all I need, and the rest I can do without.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

I’ve never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don’t run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

When I was a kid, I loved Elvis, and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. But I had no connection to Hollywood – and being a movie star was such a far-fetched idea, growing up in Hawaii.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

I think sometimes celebrities get so big, they’re not reachable.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

I hope when I’m dead I’ll be considered an icon, though.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.