Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance

Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

I don't care if people like my character. I just want them to think about the movie's message.

Platforms are established because of the way the Lord used someone.

I don't want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I'm pushing them out.

You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.

It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

The worst reason to do magic is the desire to display your superiority to your fellow humans.

Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth.