The sage embraces the one, and is an example to the world.
People who care for you inevitably become beautiful.
You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.
Humor comes from self-confidence.
I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of.
One of the most powerful sayings I have come across is by Imam ash-Shafi'I, "My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me. "
It is not quite true that there are no good letters written in America: among my own circle of correspondents there, there are ladies and gentlemen whose letters would stand a comparison with any for frankness, grace, and epistolary beauty of every kind. But I am not aware of any medium between this excellence and the boarding-school insignificance which characterizes the rest.
The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.
The purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize with other people. . . For me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy.