His Quotes

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.

Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.