I've been in New York only a few days and I have learned only two words of your language: one is Swell, and the other is Lousy. ... 'It's swell to be with you and excuse, please, my lousy English!

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad discomfort that are part and parcel of adultery.

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.

There's a reason prophets perform miracles: language lacks the power to describe faith. And you have to land on faith before you can even begin to hike around to its flip side, betrayal.

I think acting is revealing to people what it means to be human.

Slowly, I've come to realize That I cannot heal my past And that fearing the unavoidable future Is pointless

Take me home tonight, listen honey, just like Ronnie sang, be my little baby.

The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves.

Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

Man, if I was back home, I'd be swinging with two chicks on my arms.

What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.

I try to lead by example.

A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us; His dew falls everywhere.