What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.

Competence is a great creator of confidence.

I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.

[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.

Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.

Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.

For ya, love, I will be anything ya want... even a potato.

When you start thinking you're a big shot, you wash more feet.

Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others.

If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.

...It isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference.

I don’t care if I get one at all. Just as long as I keep getting anniversaries.

Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in 'Transformers.' I like to think that I've had some luck in building actors' careers with my films.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.