Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.

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.

We are so blinkered by progress, so preoccupied with where we want to go and how fast we can travel, that many of us have lost the ability to simply ‘stop’.

Alas, my lord, your wisdom is consumed in confidence.

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

You are personally responsible for everything in your life, once you become aware that you are personally responsible for everything in your life.

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.

Give. Remember always to give. That is the one thing that will make you grow.

A temperate style is alone classical.

One should express his viewpoint regarding what he performed in his country and in a vast part of the world with great respect and deep thought.

The word 'home', it seemed, once learned, was a hard one to forget.