The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

I started at the top and worked my way down.

I have a master chief that always said, punch and run.

Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.

The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.

Time is the stuff of which life is made.

Let's put the safety and security of the American people first.

The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. And peace begins with a smile.

I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books, but I only buy stuff occasionally. I like boys' things, spies and the Cold War.

Trouble brings trouble upon trouble.

I've always been freaked out in deep open water if there's a potential of sharks around.