I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

A little allegory of the soul - wherever it hides, God will find it.

The effort must be total for the results to be meaningful.

Fame means absolutely nothing except a good table at a restaurant.

When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.

President O[bama] talks the talk and then walks a completely different walk. I would call him the divider-in-chief.

'Godfather' was very classical, the way it was shot, the style, the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean.

Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.

There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.

You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer.

A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see .