With John Wayne, we argued all the time and we made four pictures.

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.

When we dare to hope, we create more hope in the world.

And you look beautiful, " she added."I look like a cake.""But a beautiful cake.

The value we place on what we've been given correlates to our depth of gratitude for it.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water.

A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.

In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band.

My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.