The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.

What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.

In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor.

European lotteries are the tax on fools.

Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

Accept who you are

Respect fails before love

... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.

Resignation is a quality of the saintly souls.

Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.

Studios weren't banging on my door to offer me parts... And I thought, well how am I ever going to make movies that speak to my heart and to my values?

Having an enemy that is visible out in the daylight is a good thing.

If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create an agency the size of NASA to build one.

I don't work. I keep telling people I'm unemployed. And I don't wash dishes, and I don't wash clothes, and I don't clean my house. Somebody else does that.

I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting . . . it was the start of a new Arab world.. The Berlin Wall has fallen.