She woke up every morning with the option of being anyone she wished. How beautiful it was that she always chose herself.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.

When you do something beautiful and nobody notice, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.

It's so easy to be grateful for a flower, for a bug, for a beautiful day.

We can self-censor ourselves for various reasons, but we can't live in a world where some person or some group decides what's offensive and what's not.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your life looking for one and it would not be a wasted life.

I love to play with the gadgets that come with film.

When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a student, I was getting dressed in my ground-floor room when a family of Italians crossed the grass to watch, as if I were laid on for their amusement and instruction.

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot of nonsense comes with it into your life.

If I could have anything, I would probably get an old Ford F-150 from the '70s.

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

In a way, cancer is so simple and so natural. The older you get, this is just one of the things that happens as the clock ticks.

Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.

You have to be really willing to embrace life and life's turns, and play that for your audience, because there is value in every moment of that journey.

Donald Trump is running this campaign. And I'm working directly for Donald Trump.

On a farm, you can get very bored.

Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill.

It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The Creator does not create at the whim of a scientist.

Think of a special friend or person you admire. Think of the love and appreciation you have for them. Think of the qualities that make them stand out for you.

I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'

A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling but the music is something Ive never heard discordant and haunting and insistent the kind of music that demands you dance.

I go out there and train as hard as anybody else.

When a movie opened - if you lived in New York, you would see it at Radio City Music Hall where it would play a couple of weeks, and then you moved on to the next movie. Now you can see it the rest of your life - it's going to be on Netflix and DVD.

If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.

The world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science.