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 seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.

Candy apple red is my favorite color. It's a powerful color to wear. It's always been that way - I've always been really attracted to that color.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

You don't have to dumb down - you just have to find a clever, good, secure man. I've found a couple - I've been lucky - but it's probably hard for everybody to find that true love of a good man.

When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big name to hold up when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, 'This kid's really weird'.

I prepared for the part by drinking, but I was sober when I was performing.

Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes.

I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on the other side, and it's his bad luck that he was born there and it's my good fortune that I was born here. It's all kind of illogical.

Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.

My dad wasn't a gangster, and he wasn't a criminal, but he sure liked to rub padded shoulders with them.

Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort.

Any time you sign a big contract, you get in those later years, the expectations are high to play at a high level.

Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.

Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one of two of 'em go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. And I think that's the promise to some people.

This big part flies off on the floor. The other part goes like this and lands in my foot! Standing up! It's standing in my foot! Right in the side of my foot. The flute glass. I think I'm like in one of my own pictures.

I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.

Reminiscence and self-parody are part of remaining true to oneself.

Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings yet whose meaning is totally independent of them.

Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

I think it would take a real stretch to think that I caused the problems with the economy.

There are no drivers like Formula One drivers. They are engineers, in a way. They are driving manual cars one-handed at 200 miles per hour around streets in Monaco. These cars use the ultimate in technology.

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.

A fine timepiece is part of dressing like a gentleman. When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch which was a Rolex Daytona. It was just one of those things that said I was successful.