A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.

My body is on the earth, but my head is in the stars.

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.

I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

It is certainly important to be looking for cures to medical disorders, but it is equally important to conduct research on human health and well-being.

Whatever career you're in, assume it's going to be a massive failure. That way, you're not making decisions based on success, money and career. You're only making it based on doing what you love.

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

Dachau-the significance of this name will never be erased from German history. It stands for all concentration camps which the Nazis established in their territory.

Love knows nothing of modesty.

For me cinema is not primarily entertainment. I don't watch fun blockbusters myself.

Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification.

Goals are discovered, not made.

Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.