Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.

I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people.

I grew up all around the world, and when I settled in a suburb in America, I didn't have any idea what I was supposed to wear.

If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.

Enjoy the day as if it were your last.

I've never been burdened with a hit record, so I don't have to play the same songs. I play songs people think they like.

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.

Passion is the genesis of genius.