Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

Lawyer: For the record, tell the ladies and gentlemen of the jury your name.
David Marks: I’m David Marks.

Billy: The way I look at it, I was kinda a coach to you, right?
Tim: Coach was my coach Billy.

[Admiring the view over L.A]
Roger Murtaugh: That’s downtown L.A. How would you like to have a house up here?
Martin Riggs: Well, it would be okay on the three days of the year when you can actually see it!

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.