From Paris we took the Orient Express to Vienna. I must say I was terribly disappointed; nobody was murdered on the train.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

The still watersWrap my lips, Eyes, nose and ears, A clearCellophane I cannot crack.

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe…

Because the silence is exhausting and isolating in a way it needn't be.

Our feelings are not there to be cast out or conquered. They’re there to be engaged and expressed with imagination and intelligence.

I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of.

All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.

An inch in a man's nose is much.

The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.

There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.