A true patriot never abandons his country at the hour of need.

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.

Wisdom is the best gift you can ever build. It gets you to unimagined heights and knowledge follows it.

I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words.

Earn Nicely, spend wisely and you will live happily.

Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.

By learning to be more warm-hearted we can create a more compassionate world.

Hope lies in what action we take.

It is in the nature of the mind that the more we cultivate and familiarize ourselves with positive emotions, the more powerful they become.

The future can be different if we choose to make it so.

I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.

When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'

I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright-walking, big-brained, super-intelligent ape.

Love and understanding never condemn but always seek to help and encourage.

Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human.

I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.

Crowds respond to anthemic choruses.

I want to be some kind of a pilot. And the other thing that I really like is psychology.

Life's short, so if you're going to spend months doing something, it's gotta be pretty special... But I'm very happy to enter my Baby Jane years, and hopefully segue into the Ruth Gordon years.