Never knew how poor I was until I started making money.

Human Rights for everyone is the necessary foundation upon which all of us may build a world where everybody may live in peace and serenity and plenty.

If we confront anti-Semitism ... if we combat it individually and as a society, and use whatever platform we have to denounce it, we can stop the spread of this madness.

Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.

Out there is nothing but possibilities.

Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.

Players never die - they just try their luck at another table.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Cancer did not bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.

Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.

Rudeness, I think, is the worst.

A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.

Being President is a little bit like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding, or else you will be swallowed up by it!

I am a musicologist, a doctor of music. Therefore I listened to, studied and analysed a lot of music. I also enjoy metaphors, the art of quoting and of cycles.

Forget them, Wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you'll never, never have to worry about grown up things again.

Only worry about things that are within your control

I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.

kindnesses have wings and roots ... wings that never droop, and roots that never die.

I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office!

Resurrection means bodily life after ‘life after death,’ or, if you prefer, bodily life after the state of ‘death’