Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.

Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.

It's a prizefight. Get off the stool, take your beating, go back to your corner, rest, and take a beating again. Believe in your own talent. Marry well.

When you come to Venice, you do special work.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

To maintain an ignorance of oneself, is to grieve for the absolution of life.

Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically?

Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.

Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

[John] Adams never hid his jealousy and resentment of the other Founders, especially Benjamin Franklin.

I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.

An ambassador for peace, Pope John Paul II stood steadfast against communism and condemned discrimination against all people.