"Of all the riches that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we can carry no more out of this world than out of a dream."

"When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things."

"Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so."

"A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love."

"Honesty: the most important thing in life. Unless you really know how to fake it, you'll never make it."

"Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay."

"Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton."

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he doesn't exist."

"I'd the upbringing a nun would envy and that's the truth. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body."

"One man's religion is another man's belly laugh."

"Discretion is knowing how to hide that which we cannot remedy."

"If happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow."