You have to be who you truly are, and love who you are, to be beautiful.

As a family, we love, we share, we play, we laugh, we fight, we are frank about the truth and we live.

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Some people have to move, physically, to "get" something. But if you're stuck in a chair, that's not your limitation - it's simply not an optimal condition for you.

So I want to thank the Pentagon, the Soviet Union and the military-industrial complex from the bottom of my heart. Without them, I could never have become the man I am today.

The more precisely I can drive, the more I enjoy myself.

The real work is in the practice.

The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.

As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn't seen him on their box, buy the paperback.