“Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.”

What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone’s ringing a lot more and I’ve got nine lines so when it doesn’t ring, it’s very frustrating.

Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.

Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It’s not about kids and their choices. It’s about parents and their choices.

Hey, Ill be a pretty boy for money.

Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.

The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don’t be upset at the results.

Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.

Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn”t be seen dead at

I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.

If you think that one individual can’t make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.

Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.

We didn’t have MTV, and I was desperate for something. You know, you’re young, you want something off the beaten path. And Twin Peaks was like, surrealism on network TV.

Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me? It is because they who have not put down their names to strive for the crown are not bound to undergo the labors of the contest.

[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he’s not afraid to go to dark places.

Transparency and detail are everything in science.

I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.

I don’t have to figure out why or how or when. God has a plan, and I’m committed to it. That commitment frees me from having to worry about the details.

Every new discovery in science brings with it a host of new problems, just as the invention of the automobile brought with it gas stations, roads, garages, mechanics, and a thousand other subsidiary details.

I have a habit of recording records very quickly – and not in a haphazardly way, not in a way where I’m not focused on details, because I’m a freak when it comes to that.

If they are, they can fill in the details even better than I could, just with their imaginations.