I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win.

Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.

I don't need a psychiatrist. I'm Catholic.

Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.

Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it.

My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!

I'm off to race around the world - a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I hope I can beat the men.

I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.

I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.

Why can't I be the adorable one?

I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

I really love writing themes and melody.

I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things not the great occasions that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.

Easy is not an option!

I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.

A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.

A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.

Sometimes when you're working on a period piece, there's this tendency to be nostalgic about the period and do everything superglamorous, which can end up looking cliche.

The rats we met the size of small dogs and they watched us go by like they'd figured out that what People were for was feeding rats.

Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, police procedurals. But the pure detective story is where there's a detective and a criminal who's committed a murder and leaves clues for the detective and the careful reader to find.

My parents were quite strict; we couldn't just listen to whatever music we wanted. It was very much like they monitored what we listened to.

A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.

It's great that people get together and collaborate, talk about the facts and the analysis, all in the interest of having a great financial system.

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

I don't want to say work is who I am, but some people feel more centered and more whole when they're producing and creating.

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

The fact that two-thirds of Americans who work at small businesses will see premium increases because of the health law is devastating news. This is one more in a long line of broken promises from President Obama and Washington Democrats.

I'm not one of those people who believes in going endlessly around finger wagging and ticking people off for occasional colourful use of language.