Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

You have to learn how to care about people without taking on all of their problems.

If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago.

I am just myself, and who I am is a lot.

How is it that you profess love for God but can't accept another human being?

We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense?

What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.

I believe the universe conspires to give you everything you desire.

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.

Let's just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart.

Calories from protein affect your brain, your appetite control center, so you are more satiated and satisfied.

A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into his permanence.

I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

I honor and protect my sensitivity.

I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality.

I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.

When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold.

[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.

But, said Alice, the the world has absolutely no sens, who's stopping us from inventing one?