To write an autobiography, you've got to expose other people. I hope to get out of this world as gracefully as possible, without embarrassing anyone.

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.

Destiny is not necessarily what we get out of life, but rather, what we give.

I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.

Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you arecruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

When people tell you how young you look, they are also telling you how old you are.

Sometimes angels rush in where fools fear to tread.

All it takes are a few simple outfits. And there's one secret - The Simpler The Better

Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened.

All truly toxic thoughts are expelled while moving. Gotta move to stay alive.

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

The single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open asking hand held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other.

Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am.

I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.

For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn't. I don't think it really is for most people anyway. Most people are not very happy.

Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that's a statement.

Repentance is the vomit of the soul.