Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

Virtue is not photogenic.

Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.

You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

Obey the voice within - it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive

The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.

My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.

I didn’t think saying good-bye would be so hard. And with everything that’s to come—We’ll face it together. To whatever end.

Her heart longed for some ark into which it could fly and be at rest. Rough or smooth she did not care, so long as it was warm.

The house fills with the particular atmosphere that accompanies peacefully sleeping children: a rich narcotic silence that creeps down the stairs and twines itself around the table legs.

Teach those only willing to listen and listen to those only willing to teach

There are four things a child needs: plenty of love nourishing food regular sleep and lots of soap and water.

It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.

It's not that your most important work is meaningless; it's that your most trivial movements are also significant.

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.

Popularity can be a real headache.