There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.

I have too much money invested in sweaters.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

I remember thinking that I’d way rather give my parents my money and not have to like have them go to work anymore you know what I mean. Because I’d way rather spend more time with them.

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord but few of us are willing to do little things.

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen but I am afraid it is not going to be a success.

If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling the confidence in success which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

But with comedy it’s a simple premise. If it’s funny people laugh. If it’s not they don’t.

I think it’s always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don’t know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it’s a simple premise. If it’s funny people laugh. If it’s not they don’t.

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny you’ve immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

My passion is doing movies and as long as I keep doing that I’ll be happy. I want to do movies fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.

My passion is doing movies so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy.

As to war I am and always was a great enemy at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This and not much else is the essence of leadership.

War is like love it always finds a way.

Success is a process a quality of mind and way of being an outgoing affirmation of life.

There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.

I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they’re legal harder to get.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

I wish people would turn off their computers go outside talk to people touch people lick people enjoy each other’s company and smell each other on the rump.

I wish I had coined the phrase ‘tyranny of choice’ but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong and that you are wrong if you choose any of them.

I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with all these fabulous women ‘Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.’ I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it’s not that simple.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

I will not play tug o’ war. I’d rather play hug o’ war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug Where everyone kisses and everyone grins and everyone cuddles and everyone wins.

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous – if they aver that doubt is a crime then I attack them one and all because they enslave the minds of men.

I will continue to work as hard as I can to make this organization proud. Every time I step on the field I will give everything I have and I will leave everything I have on the field every single Sunday.

I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said ‘What for?’ I said ‘I’m going to buy some sugar.’

I went to college at the University of Kansas where I got a degree in political science.

I went to America and got into a band had success had hits in Australia.

I went to a football school which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.

I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out.

I wear black skinny-fit jeans – I can’t get away from them. It’s funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great.