The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the downside is some of the things... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the information isn't true or to see pictures that aren't really me, or for them to be able to sell these things, that's one of the downsides, I think.

Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles.

In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do it on the phone.

The next time the devil reminds you of your past, remind him of his future.

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

The violet is a nun.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is their prime delight.

Charm ache with air, and agony with words. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing.

The earth and its resources belong of right to its people.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. •Thomas Hobbes Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others. •Johann Kaspar Lavater It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals. •Fred Allen We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual.

Huzzaed out of my seven senses.

Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.