We should not pour muck on ourselves.

God will not forgive us if we fail.

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.

We should not pour muck on ourselves.

One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. 'Away with you', I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.

I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.

You have to give love to get love.

There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.

The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.

One of the biggest challenges in my job is letting go of the movie once you go home at night, and knowing you can't do anything to your performance once you've laid it on film.

I used to pre-rehearse everything and then bring my pre-rehearsed performance to the set. Now, I'm learning to let it happen in the moment. American actors are much better at that than British actors. If I knew how to trust myself, I would have been much more relaxed.

Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

Vertical search engines that match your business, service or products with a target market offer you a higher conversion rate than traditional search engines. Because they have already qualified their interest by coming to a search engine with a specific focus, searchers will be more receptive to targeted advertising.

A bachelor is a guy who leans toward women but not far enough to lose his balance.

If I had a day to myself I would just play video games with my brothers.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I've been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

I think it's very helpful having Twitter and all that. I mainly talk about work on Twitter. I keep my personal life separate from my work life, but I think it helps because everybody's on the Internet now - everybody has Facebook; everybody has Twitter.

Sometimes when things seem falling apart they might actually be falling into place. Just have patience.

Push my buttons, and I'll push you off a bridge.

The bass should be the note of the bass drum, and then you've got the engine of the band that everything else builds on. Everything else, the guitar, the keyboards, is a colour.

I'd never do a film that would hurt anyone's sentiments, be it Indian or not.

When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.

As far as cities go, Havana is a festering treasure chest, a primary color.

So many heroes are driven by destiny. Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, they were all chosen and born to heroism. Even with Batman, it doesn't feel like Bruce could do anything else. His whole life was leading him to become the Dark Knight.

I didn't have a dysfunctional childhood or young adulthood, but I was somebody who was very much raised to do what other people told me to do as a person.

If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech there will be freedom of speech even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish inconvenient minorities will be persecuted even if laws exist to protect them.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.