I started smoking as soon as I went on the stage. I'd make cigars out of the Morning World when I was a kid.

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.

Failure is success in abeyance

If you would convince others seem open to conviction yourself.

I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.

Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

The wall around the window does not create two worlds.

The church that will not give up will be outdated and passed by, quicker than they realize.

If we say leaders are incompetent, we are going to fuel extremist, populist, xenophobic and ultra-nationalist parties.

Relax, you're on a journey of discovery. Let life reveal itself to you.

I try to make the audience forget all their problems -- for an hour and a half or so get them out of themselves, and space, and time, and consciousness.

I never dreamed I could build a $100 million company. I just happened to build a $1 million company that became a $5 million company, and so on.