It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.

Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

Get mad, then get over it.

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

It takes a lot of wind to sail a leaky boat.

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

Neapolitans are extremely empathetic, whereas the typical northern attitude is more about not showing or sharing your feelings.

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

It's just what I am. When I am in the zone making one movie, I just didn't want to read anything else or do anything else, so I don't really develop projects.

Eggs! They're not a food, they belong in no group! They're just farts clothed in substance!

I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them.

God will help us become the people we are meant to be, if only we will ask Him

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

TV can be fairly rigid. I've done enough Network TV to know that it's fun but if I have to go somewhere every day maybe it's not the most satisfying [job].