I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!

I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.

Tone can be as important as text.

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

If you look round Hollywood there's no end of white smiles and six packs. Long lines of beautiful people lining up to be incredible on film.

This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love.

You can't win if you're chasing the wrong problem.

A Christian is a keyhole through which other folk see God.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation explanation showing observation and supervision.

If something goes wrong, don't whine about it. Have a spine about it. Adjust, adapt, and move forward.

Whoever says Friendship is easy has obviously never had a true friend

I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.

For me, I met my husband when I was going full steam ahead of what I wanted in my career. We sort of intersected and were like, 'Oh, hi, hello!' We were both on our way somewhere to speak and then just kept going together.

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.

I'm the kind of person who likes to create the environment and mindset - not because I do it deliberately, but because that's how I like to live - where, from catering to makeup to hair to wardrobe, electricians, camera department lighting, sound, you know, it's our movie; we're together, and we have that camaraderie and that closeness.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

My father is an amazing person.

The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.

My focus has always been on connecting with consumers in a meaningful way.

The man molds the idol and then the idol molds the man.

Circumcision is obligatory for Jewish-born males - it must be performed on the eighth day after birth and is only postponed in the case of threat to the life or health of the child. Muslim parents also circumcise their male children.

I go to the gym in the morning without any makeup on. Sorry, guys, if you think I'm ugly, but I don't know anybody who goes to the gym with makeup on.

Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.

I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire.

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.

The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there, but no one else can see them.

The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.