"Maybe someday I'll be able to shoot a film I'm proud of."

"So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause."

"Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall."

"Look at this. It's worthless - ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless."

"Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire."

"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

"Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word 'academic' in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation."

"I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."

"Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it."

"We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do."