Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.

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.

Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.

Judgment doesn’t always fall on the unjust in this life. Sometimes you have to make your own way out.

Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America.

I spend too much money on my sets and my gowns. I think the presentation is important. I don't think people want to see the old show all the time.

Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use.

More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.

After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there

I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.

When someone offers me a job or a project, I always ask myself, "What does it tell me about the world?" and "Have I seen it before?" Two good questions.

I opened two gifts this morning. They were my eyes.