There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

It’s really fun to be on stage in front of people.

When Jerry Springer thinks you’ve gone too far, my friends, you have gone too far.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘

The rules are there for a reason.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

I don’t blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they’ll realize there’s more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don’t have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don’t pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word – and actually wanting to see you.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

It’s all make believe, isn’t it?

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Every day, my mom and I would watch a different Judy Garland VHS. I love how she tells a story when she sings. It was just about her voice and the words she was singing – no strings attached or silly hair or costumes, just a woman singing her heart out. I feel like that doesn’t happen that much anymore.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

I love WWE, and I love that platform. There is no other platform in the world that gives me that instant gratification. There is just no other platform.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

I’ve always written. There’s a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother’s papers were destroyed. I’d written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

I can remember earning £5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided to take two-thirds. That wasn’t very entertaining for me.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.