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I'm a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me it's pure.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.

When it comes to the economy, my highest priority as President will be worrying about your job, not saving my own.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

This war is not about slavery.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.

I don't think many actors are the best judge of careers. I think generally we have good instincts about what we can do in terms of acting. And often they become directors, which I don't want to be.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That's when the pollsters worry about holding onto their credibility. Those are the polls that everybody remembers.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.