But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

The heart's actionsare neither the sentence nor its reprieve. Salt hay and thistles, above the cold granite. One bird singing back to another because it can't not.

The word griot...is the word for what I do and the role that the filmmaker has in society...the griot is a messenger of one's time, a visionary and the creator of the future.

The weekend's here, started it right. Even if I only get part of it right.

People have fallen in love with words and lost the world. It’s time to regain it.

Are there rules about betting on baseball games? Yeah--you have to stay away from the Padres.

A woman either loves or hates; she knows no medium.

I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. But that's part of the pleasure of doing it, pushing yourself in new directions.

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

Moscow has an energy. Which is important. The city and the people all have an energy. It's quite different from what everybody knows in Los Angeles, but it has an energy. People have an energy.