If there were one city I should pick to live in, it would be New York. It is a city where I walk down the street and feel anything is possible.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

I have come finally to a simple philosophy of work. I enjoy what I do and do the best I can. That is enough.

I like Americans. They always make an effort when they meet you. They want to be liked and to like you; it is always easy to be with them.

Nothing makes us so beautiful as our smiles.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work.

Our hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces that create the future.

Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas.

The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the noblest virtues. To run well, we must run to the end. It is not the fighting but the' conquering that gives a hero his title to renown.

Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

Some kids are good at math, some kids can run, and acting was an interest of mine. Because I knew you could do it for a living I decided, that's what I'm going to do.

Sometimes when I'm not feeling so happy, I do something to make someone else happy then I find I'm suddenly feeling happy again.

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.