As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

THE AMPUTATED HEARTBEATS HARDER

Look deep deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.

People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.

I would love to do a reunion tour if it only involved basements across the U.S.

You gotta fight for your right to vote!

When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.

It took Sydney Pollack a long time to get me to do Tootsie. I asked myself if I wanted to play some frothy, ditzy character after I had just done Frances. Obviously, I'm thrilled that I did.

Life is very simple. What I give out comes back to me. Today, I choose to give love.

It’s my birthday, Horus insisted. Wish me happy birthday! “Happy birthday!” I yelled. “Now shut up!

Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.