If our company is to survive and prosper, over the long term we must get our share of the youth market.

I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.

Singin' in the Rain (1952) and childbirth were the two hardest things I ever had to do in my life.

The only way you learn is by failure.

I don't expect success. I prepare for it.

I think you should control yourself a little bit, so you can walk, and when you die, you can walk to your own funeral.

Anything worthwhile is hard, and dancing is very hard, and if you've ever studied dancing of any kind you'd know that to be in precision, three people dancing together.

I do twenty minutes every time the refrigerator door opens and the light comes on.

I'll just stay in [show business] till they stuff me like Trigger, when I drop dead.

Are you stalking me? Because that would be super.

I dragged my wife from our honeymoon in Africa and landed her in Ontario, Canada, when it was -40 degrees.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.

Whatever you want that others in your life can't give you, ask yourself how you can give it to yourself.

And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.

Heaven is not for good people, it's for forgiven people.

Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.

It's just certain people that I get the giggles with.

Take giant leaps. Too many companies are into incremental innovation. The only thing that moves markets is violent turns. Major differences. Don't get caught in the trap of small steps.

People always want to have ownership and decision-making and autonomy.

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.