I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

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.

The way Bunker loved me, so fully, clearly, and without exception, helped me remember every day to try to bring that kind of love to myself and others in my life.

Because blood is blood, and every family has its own force.Its own flavor.Its own charm and strange.

If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.

Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock

Pretend and it will be true.

The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.

Britain is China's best partner in the West.

So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.

I'm certainly not saying that my life is what success is all about. To me, success is the ongoing process of striving to become more.