I'd always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.

A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.

Practice, the master of all things.

Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.

What is done well is done quickly enough.

I stared at the enormous homes, the landscaping and flower beds immaculate. It was as if dollar bills, instead of leaves, hung from the trees.

If you go out and make some things happen, you will fill the world with hope.

I got into the genesis of Star Wars, and the tale seemed to me endlessly fascinating.

I do think evangelicals have been under attack.

So many people are looking at what's wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what's right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

I meddled in things that man must leave alone

I think it's important to be sincere. And I could be the most sincere just staying in [my] mother language actually. And that's the reason why I stay composing and writing in French.

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.