When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. . . . In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.
But pearls are fair; and the old saying is: Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.
This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.
Generate so much loving energy that people want to just come and hang out with you. And when they show up, bill them!
It is very hard to perceive the future on a regular basis simply because the future changes.