The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

Old age lives minutes slowly hours quickly childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.

The idealist walks on tiptoe the materialist on his heels.

I am constantly working out-circuit training, jumping rope, and stair-stepping, and sticking to 1200 calories a day. It can't be something that you're doing to lose weight, and then once you do, you're done. I do it every day of my life.

I'm a gung-ho guy.

I feel all the religions should be able to co-exist if the various factions would be willing to respect and learn from each other's faiths.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution.

I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.

This globalization is lifting up hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The Left needs to see that.

Life is like an onion You peel it off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.

I like plays, movies, everything. It doesn't matter.

My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.

The right to life is the first among human rights.

The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.

Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant.

To me, redneck is a sense of self and a way of life.

There is nothing more frightening than the faces of people whom one does not know but who seem to know one and be amused by one.

Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already.

If you have somebody who's brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual background, great things can happen.

There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.

With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl.

We do not invest in advertising... So racing is the best advertising for Ferrari.

After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.

Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.