The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

Virtue is not photogenic.

Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.

You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

Obey the voice within - it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive

My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

Nature loves to hide.

Let go of self-condemnation and guilt!

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

To tell an adult exactly what steps to take towards his salvation was apt to weaken him. It deprived him of his inalienable right to trial and error which was tonic to the character.

I think people should have no illusions that Hillary [Clinton] is going to solve the climate crisis for us. We are in as much trouble with fracking as we are with coal. They both need to be stopped.

There is something beautiful about photography; it allows the self to be reunited with the world.

I don't believe in luck. Luck is just preparation meeting the moment of opportunity.

The comic book industry has turned into the wellspring for all of these movies that are all based on the comic books.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.