i have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair - i am not cold, i swear, but i have decided certain things, it is best for me to ignore emotion; i have not been happy dealing with it.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

Nobody knows anything.

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.

Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

You‘ve been given the innate power to shape your life.

Don’t let the things of the world distract you. Focus on your purpose

Perfect should never be a goal. Perfect just happens if you let it.

I can always say I led off for the New York Yankees. It's an amazing feeling.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

In nature, everything has a job. The job of the fog is to beautify further the existing beauties!

We're the only nation in the world where most of our poor people are fat.

Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.

Everyone is dealing with something. This is life; this is not just a piece of cake.