I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.

I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.

I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

Everybody asks me, 'So, what are you doing now?' Why must I be doing something? All my life I've been doing something. All my life I've been doing. For now, I'm being -- being quiet, being grateful.

I really don't like talking about diets.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

You've got to love people, places, ideas; you've got to live with mind, body, soul; you've got to be committed; there is no life on the side-lines.

Even when I jog, I need a place to get to.

Men go after me, and I choose among them.

Very little is needed to make a happy life

All the pain on the outside can not undo what is felt on the inside.

Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man’s nose begins.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed in the second it is opposed in the third it is regarded as self-evident.

It's a considerable source of tragedy in the world that people stay in powerful jobs long past the point where they're a spent force.

Marriage is something that should be tried at least once. It's educational.

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

I don't really read the tabloids, and you never know if what's being printed is true or not.

I have but one life to give to adventure. " Alexander Eliot -" Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.

I know that people think of my work from the '70s as American, but I've been going to other places for a long time.