Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.

It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

This is the end of the day, but soon there will be a new day.

If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.

Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.

Live in a way that would not leave us regretting after so many years on earth.

Happiness at any price is no happiness at all.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

My talk show takes place in bed, in Italy.

Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here

Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset - its flexibility.

Melancholy is kind of sweet sometimes, I think. It's not a negative thing. It's not a mean thing. It's just something that happens in life, like autumn.

Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

If I died tomorrow I've accomplished what I set out to do in my life. I enjoy making my movies, I enjoy doing what I do. I have a nice life.

Let them bomb Japan with that nasty missile. Their missile cannot load a nuclear warhead.