Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking.

Gardening requires lots of water... most of it in the form of perspiration.

We will all be better citizens when voting records of our Congressmen are followed as carefully as scores of pro-football games.

It's been the same since caveman days, this game of love - they just changed the trumps from clubs to diamonds.

The things that have made America great are being subverted for the things that make Americans rich.

I am the perfect version of me.

Every fit has a misfit. Finding your fit is the path rather than fighting to fit.

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.

The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that's very good. My mother has learned how to spend money.

Every woman has the right to be beautiful.

autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.

I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.

I really, really love directing films.

Plenty of crazy people in New York. There are so many crazy people here, I think it's like one out of every one person is completely out of their mind.