What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.

... not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.

The only perfect climate is bed.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

Always speak first to the toughest person in the room.

There is a difference between giving-up and strategic disengagement. Know the difference.

The moment of birth is a miracle .

Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!