I’ve always loved the night, when everyone else is asleep and the world is all mine. It’s quiet and dark—the perfect time for creativity.

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national .

How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else.

Life--a lifelong death sentence.

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record.

It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.