The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.
I think there's so many actors out there that we see and we know as one thing but are capable of so much more.
The Netherlands border Belgium and Germany.
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
I want their safety as the first thing, and their ability to respond to threats is number two.
It is everyone's prerogative to retire. But it's like giving up on life as far as I'm concerned.
I love life because what more is there.
Va doesn't have a money problem, it has a management problem.
My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.
I was always watching Dad lift trophies. That made me want to do what he does.
It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.
Young sheep are called lambs.
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.
I remember in the fifth grade my dad would take me to Manhattan to shop for clothes.
It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.
A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
He that is warm thinks all so.
If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.
Silence was never written down.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.
If the mountain won't come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes.
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.
