Stop trying to be a magician. The past won’t come back. It likes its safety in memory.

We have to live within the framework of our limitations and the mistakes we make. Argue with Destiny, but never try to wrestle it into submission. If you do, you’ll end up losing.

I don’t enjoy surprises that compel me to renegotiate my relationship with the past.

I suspect each of us uses the past to prop up the bruised present. It’s a clumsy try for the comfort of normality.

I wish I had the gift of religious faith. Sometimes I long to believe in a structured universe designed purposefully for mankind.

To be honest I'd just love to keep writing hits for other people... That's kind of my secret dream.

Sometimes I wonder if I would've been more successful if I wasn't acting and I concentrated on other things. But I love being on set. I love working with my 100 crew members.

The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness.

Before one can generalize, formalize, and axiomatize, there must be a mathematical substance.

I emphasize... that the Harrimans showed great courage and loyalty and confidence in us, because three or four of us were really running the business, the day to day business.

No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.

Gangsta rappers can't fight, so they rap about guns.

Even the promiscuous feel pain.

"I wouldn't be in your position" - old saw. If there is any political move that I would advocate it would be an alliance between America and Red China, if they'd have us.