Iron hand in a velvet glove.

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.

My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

I came, I saw, God conquered.

Iron hand in a velvet glove.

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed she commonly goes the further away.

I'm not really the sex symbol type.

Not only are most of our citizens fathomlessly ignorant of the glories of American literature, a fast-growing percentage of our students are no longer taught much about any works of American art, be they novels, paintings, symphonies or ballets.

Dad never misses a chance to remind me that whenever we are travelling together, if 100 people mob him for autographs, five approach me.

The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

I'm very forgiving so I forgive most things, really.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

I will be very sad if I ever get to the point where I think, 'Oh no, another dress from Armani.' I want to be still screaming my head off when it arrives.

People are not trying to get into China, they're trying to get out of China. The United States is the only great country where people are trying to get into to this country for obvious reasons.

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

I enjoy being characters rather than myself.

I shop, therefore I am.

You have to search for the best writer - I'm not saying I'm the one, but it's a bad idea to just find the person who is a copycat of Stieg Larsson.

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

For young people, it doesn't matter so much, but when you're older, less is definitely more - too much make-up can give you the 'eccentric Aunt Sally' look!

When I gain a pound it's in the headlines.

Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.

The line has almost become a work of art in itself.

If smoking is not allowed in heaven, I shall not go.

Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong.