I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. . . . I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.

If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.

To be a success you need to have persistence of drive, persistence of vision, and persistence of action. You will be doing yourself a disservice by not staying resilient.

Every living word that gives life was once without form.

Coffee’s the elixir of life.

I've been fighting every single day of my life. Sometimes I think all I have left is fight.

The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.

We can conceive of nothing more fair than something which we have experienced.

There are people with a lot more talent than I have who have been weeded out of the league because they couldn't put their egos aside to fill a role.

We have dinner every single night, Monday through Friday, with our children. We sit down around 6 or 6:30 and it's a family dinner - it's time to check in, just to be around each other.

All are called to holiness, and holy people alone can renew humanity.

My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.