Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Whether you deny your wounds or see them clearly, they bring a great source of power because they lived in the same place as your heart.

Hope keeps us alive. Life is interesting because of egocentric hope and love full sprit.

I can't think of any bank robbery comedy where it's about two normal guys. It's kind of like Superbad meets Heat, which is a cool combo, and it's just fun doing a normal guy that's robbing a bank.

I continue to believe when I said in Hanover, that the E.U. remains one of the world's great political and economic achievements, and that those achievements should not be taken for granted.

Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.

Golf has too much walking to be a good game, and just enough game to spoil a good walk.

I'm total, total, total liberal and proud of it.

For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life.

I want you to be supervised, all day every day, by people who forgive your errors and believe in your destiny.

The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.