There is only one better thing than music - live music.

I'd rather believe in reincarnation than hell. The idea of an afterlife is much so more tolerable when returning is an option.

The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection.

Everybody knows I return all of my phone calls. I pick up my cell phone myself, much to the chagrin of my staff.

If Americans in 2100 came to see 12 meters sea-level rise as inevitable by 2200, who can even begin to fathom how the nation would respond?

The Notebook ... that’s my favorite one. I’ve read that book 30 times. It gives a true depiction of two people that are in love.

The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.