I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

Virtue is not photogenic.

Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.

You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

Obey the voice within - it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive

The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.

My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.

If you doubt a man's ability, you limit their potential.

If I can do things right, I don't see why everyone else can't.

I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.

It is with our Passions, as it is with Fire and Water, they are 'Good Servants,' but 'Bad Masters.'

It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.

If your short-term goals are too high, you may give up too soon. If your long-term goals are too low, they may not give you enough enthusiasm to drive you over the bumps in the road along the way.

Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.

Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

You can’t fight off Ebola the way you fight off a cold. Ebola does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten years to accomplish.