The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

I take a vitamin every day; it's called a steak.

The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

Smell that? You smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.

Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.

Never use money to measure wealth, son.

If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.

I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.

God is calling you to change the world one life at a time and one small step at a time. Begin today where you are.

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.

You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want.

When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

I know very well that the political classes have spread fear among the electorate: Without the euro, the sun will cease shining, the rivers will stop flowing, we will enter an ice age.

When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.'

I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees…But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution.

What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking action.