I've always believed in a higher power. You can call it God, you can call it Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Allah, I don't care. I really believe we are all a part of God.

Have the confidence to be your own person.

True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.

Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind.

I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'

I’ve been a nun. A Catholic nun.

Sexual desire is a state not unlike hunger.

One of the challenges was to make a cinematic movie about literally talking heads and to try to make it feel like something you want to see in a theater.

In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.

The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved.

In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.