I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say 'This is la-la land.' God doesn't say 'Welcome to Earth. Everything's perfect. There's no crime. There's no murder. There's no death.' The world is imperfect and you have to be on guard.

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly completely successfully or just completely the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

I'm a four star general in this thing and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.

I've always wanted to be a dad. I just can't wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids but maybe I've become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect.

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years and the more I learned about it the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect not even my mother.

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline simulated fear postulates courage simulated weakness postulates strength.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.

They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.'

I love 'Goodfellas' because it's a great movie - it's funny and there is action at perfect points. I just think Martin Scorsese makes everyone look really cool.

When you think back to your first kiss your hair is perfect and she was wearing a cool outfit. We remember it with restraint and we remember it with style. We remember it as idealistically as you can think.

I try to be the best husband I can be and if people respect that that's cool. But there's no 'perfect husband.' We just all try to do the best we can you know what I mean?

I read the script for Wonder Boys and I said that was almost perfect it was so classy cool and funny. It's a really specific thing. We stuck to it it turned out good and a lot of people liked it.

My perfect guy wears converse is totally laid back and doesn't worry about being cool.

I don't have perfect teeth I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

To live is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them.