As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Whoever desires to be free, shall search for the Truth.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

I hope to make the most expensive movie in history at some point!

The most important person in the motion picture process is the writer... and we must do everything in our power to prevent them from ever realizing it.

Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.

Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.

There's a lot of power and responsibility that comes with owning who you are as a woman.

[People] look at [Donald Trump] not prosecuting Hillary [Clinton] as maybe, uh-oh.

I acknowledge that Hulu's easy accessibility probably keeps some people from pirating. But a respected industry analyst says less than 5% of TV content is being stolen today.

I tell college students, when you get to be my age you will be successful if the people who you hope to have love you, do love you.