When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

Virtue is not photogenic.

Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.

You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

Obey the voice within - it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive

The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.

My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.

Not that complicated. I think I'm in love with you, Essie. But I also think you're not ready. I shouldn't have sprung it on you like that, so I decided to take it at your speed.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Without peace and the rule of law, civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights cannot be enjoyed, when killing, maiming and mutual poisoning prevail.

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

I'm what happens after death, which is writing.

There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

Before social media, we shouted at our TV sets.

I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees.