Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

Change is such hard work.

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.

Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.

It is better to look good than to feel good.

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.

To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing.

A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it's great.

A man who believes everything can be explained by science is just as ignorant as someone who believes everything can be explained by religion.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

I wasn't ready for goodbye, not now, not yet. Stay with me tonight, please don't go just yet.

The most terrible thing of all is happy love, for then there is fear in everything.

Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life.

The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction.

Why tie to gold? Why not 1982 Bordeaux?

Maybe these kids are just too young and too dumb to know about the first 13. Maybe they can't comprehend that the Braves have only won one World Series in those 13 years.

l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.