When you're hounded by the shame of the past, you can turn into a pretty miserable person who is always trying to measure up and please others.

It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native language was thought.

What's optimism? said Cacambo. Alas, said Candide, it is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell.

It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around.

You have to hope that your opponents are unlucky. Never only rely on your own luck.

Nothing is going to stop Mike Tyson that doesn't have a motor attached.

What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning.

But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.

The bemused Brigadier shook his head. "You and that TARDIS.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist