New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Being kind is more important than being right.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

If you can’t find a few minutes every day for yourself, you don’t have a complete life.

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

No map? No problem. Let commitment and determination lead the way.

So the moral of this week is: if you do something really, really stupid in front of someone you're just getting to know and they still think you're awesome, then you got yourself a friend.

Cinema is an art form.

I tell the actors that the biggest gift they can give me is to fail. And that the second gift they can give me is to surprise me.

My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.

I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting.

The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.

Sophia Loren, whose new baby asked her, Is all that for me? Never got a dinner!