Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

Know or listen to those who know.

To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

In this business (showbiz) it takes time to be really good and by that time, you're obsolete.

Being the first to do anything takes guts.

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

I'm a real blue jeans girl, I wear jeans all the time and I couldn't live without them. Jeans and blazers.

I went to rent a car, and the guy goes, 'Do you want the extra insurance?' I said, 'Why...am I gonna get into an extra accident?

Essentially, there is no media, folks. There just isn't any media in the sense that there are reporters out there uncovering things you and I don't know and telling us what they are.

We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.

Genius is Omniscience flowing into man.

Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.