He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it

Give sometimes everything will be alright.

Jesus knew that all the commandments of the law of Moses rested on loving God and loving your neighbor

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.

It's crazy, right? To love someone who's hurt you? It's even crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you.

I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.

I made the mistake early in my career, when I moved to Hollywood, of being attracted to actresses. I used to go out exclusively with actresses and other female impersonators.

Not by force shall the children learn, but through play

I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?

God has given me the grace to see some of the seeds that I have sown bear good fruit, and I am so grateful.