Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Vice is its own reward.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

Rien ne va arrêter ma quête pour te trouver" No one will stop my quest to find you.

I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, "Never give up hope, spring will come.

To be heroic does not have to mean possessing the ability to stand against the evils of the world, either well or successfully, but just that one is willing to stand.

I remember on 'JAG,' Joe Jackson punched Stephen Culp and shattered his nose.

Do I have to use my own money?

I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

You are not punching them; it is your going into kamae that punches them.

It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.

When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.

There's no such thing as quality time; there's only quantity time.