"It's easier to stay in shape if you never let yourself get out of shape in the first place."

“I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.”

“As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.”

“Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.”

“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body.”

“I don't always vote in general elections, but I think I've always voted Labour.”

“Play is kids' work in that it is a form of experiential learning that contributes directly to a person's ability to handle failure, to work in teams, and to take risks.”

Source : "More Than Fun and Games - Play Matters" by Nancy Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2014.

“We actually are waiting for more people to be killed before we can do something that makes sense. We don't kill enough people in aviation to merit regulatory changes.”

“The enactment of the Homestead Act would create the strongest tie between the citizen and the Government-he would with cheerfulness contribute his proportionable part of the taxes to defray the expenses of the political system under which he lived.”