We're trying to find areas of cooperation with Russia in the area of counterterrorism and the campaign against ISIS.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.

The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of The New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure

My deep relations with fashion started in Paris in 1980s, when I was appointed head of The Fashion History course at French Esmod fashion school, the biggest and the best in those years in Paris.

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

Answerless questions can destroy you. Move on.

When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.

Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?

We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.

I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican.

Alvin's the coach. We must be the Clippers. And I must be Olowokandi. Nooooo!

I love the honesty of New Yorkers. When a New Yorker says 'let's do lunch,' they actually mean it. In L.A., when they say 'let's do lunch,' they're just trying to say good-bye.