Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Make your life a mission - not an intermission.

The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it.

Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.

A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.

Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not.

Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

Nothing lasts forever -not even your troubles.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when theyre not so good and sympathizes with your problems when theyre not so bad.

Make your life a mission “ not an intermission.

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.

I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not all.

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

You're never too old to become younger.

Until I was about 16 years old, my dream was to be a musician. I played in rock bands and jazz bands. Then I decided to be an actor and kept the stable career of 'jazz pianist' as my safety net.

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.

There was never a day when I was as good as Joe DiMaggio at his best. Joe was the best, the very best I ever saw.

Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.

I think if I ever stopped pushing myself, I would revert quickly to quite repetitive, restrictive behaviour. But in pushing myself and concentrating on what I can do, I think I can contribute to society. And that gives me the desire to keep pushing, to see what I'm capable of. The thing to do is not to stop.

Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph.D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a white scholar with the same credentials, and I will take that black scholar.

Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.

I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when churches were illegal in Mexico. She had a chapel in the home, right between the kitchen and dining room.

I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

I love you more than words can show, I think about you more than you could ever know, until forever this will be true, because there is no one I would ever love the way I love you.

I'm not a singer, so I reproduce a little bit what I see on television and what I listen to on the radio. I don't have self-control, really, so I didn't want to sing like Mariah Carey.

Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.

I've listened to music all my life. I've always felt that music tells more stories sometimes than films, with more possibilities. Every time you listen to them, songs bring different images and moods - depending on where you are in your life, you can listen to a song, and it means something different.