I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.

I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.

Today, more people are crossing various borders in order to survive, thrive, change their lives. Even if you don't cross the border, with demographic shifts, the border sometimes crosses you.

An artist must be a reactionary

I don't use those terms [like Uncle Tom], and I would never speak in that kind of language.

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.

Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.

What we know about God is important, but what we do with what we know about God is even more important.

I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.

There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.