Don't die famous. The things they will say you did and said would make you rise up in anger if you were alive.

The best dreams are the dreams we made come true for the world.

To forgive, you must love the world and everything in it. Anything less is hypocrisy.

Today, you can pick your own news. At no time has the world been this compatible with apathy.

Reality is a construct. You are what you think you are.

I dream of a morning when Filipinos can wake up from the centuries-long sleep that took them from their past and denied them their destiny as a people.

In the end, class will out. So much talk about helping the poor. It's all words and class interest— in the end.

The battle for hearts and minds begins in the field of memory. And in that field, age has no limit.

Kindness is fate’s currency for good fortune. And like all currencies, it is without value when faked.

Only two things in man’s consciousness defy discussion: faith and one’s marriage.

Faith is one of only two things in mankind's consciousness that defies discussion. The other is one's marriage.

Am I as admirable as that ant?

No one cares what you ate for breakfast. Unless it's something really spectacular, don't tweet me your breakfast, I don't care.

Every time I see Anthony Hopkins I think that, to some extent, he has just been getting away with it all these years.

Perhaps love doesn't make the world go round, but it makes the bumpy ride worthwhile and provides a glorious destination.

Let me complain-it's good for television.

In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.

Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force.

I worry about technical details - did I mix the cello half a decibel too high? Things like that.

You don't make movies about "men" and "women." You make movies about this guy and this woman and if you get them right, you'll automatically connect with a lot of people.