Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.

Most men are essentially dead by thirty.

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

The friend who understands you, creates you.

You can't expect the level of excitement of your audience to be greater than your own.

Topics... are what people talk about when they don't know each other well. Topics... are what men talk about.

My commitment to gender equality is rooted in the quintessentially American principle of equal justice under law.

My favorite, and the author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me.

Youth is life's beautiful moment.

Life, too much of it, and not enough. The fear that it will end some day, and the fear that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.

He's no more human than I am, ma petite." At least I'm not dead." That can be remedied.

I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.

Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!

I'm so much more confident and sexy at thirty-eight than I ever was when I was eighteen or twenty-four.