Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

A hospital is no place to be sick.

Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand.

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

There wasn't a woman alive who could resist a man who paid attention to her, who made her feel like she was the only other person in his world.

You cannot fill your life with happiness when you insist on living a stressful life.

Just because you’re grown up and then some doesn’t mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)

And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.

Your federal government needs your money so that it can perform vital services for you that you would not think up yourself in a million years.

Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other journalists.

It is said that in life we must play with the cards we are dealt, but too often I have kept those cards too close to my chest.

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

Nobody paved the way for me, Jesus paved the way for me.

I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.