You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.

I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed? He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not playing croquet when you’re doomed?

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

After a full belly all is poetry.

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen

A mother's love is a blessing No matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You'll miss her when she's gone -- Angela's Ashes.

The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.

Models today, she explained, don't understand that to be successful you have to have a personality, intelligence, and issues that you support, and Gisele embodies these qualities.

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.

In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it

When one loves animals and children too much, one loves them against human beings.

But still at that particular level of commercialism I listen to those projects I still hear some stagnation in a lot of the stuff.

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

It is always better to say too little than too much.

Mankind ought to end its existence of its own will.

Throughout my career, Ive wrestled a lot of countries.

I don't want to go around making everyone else agree with me. I don't feel the need to do that.