In a democracy, you believe it or not; in a dictatorship, you believe it or else.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.

This may be the age of automation, but love is still being made by hand.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

Nothing ages your car as much as the sight of your neighbor's new one.

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

Be careful who you share your dreams with whilst they are still in the creation stage. Doubt kills dreams.

For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother

You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

I was always such an incredible fan of John Woo, I just wanted to do this film with him.

I've never met a leopard print I didn't like.

The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.

Everybody has something good inside them. Some hide it, some neglect it, but it is there

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.