“The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.”

Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.

Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.

The news media in general are liberals.

Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.

New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It’s a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.

Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don’t know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I’ve rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.

The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.

When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.

I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.

I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!

I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.

Don’t let the bastards get you down.

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.

I was never a natural. I got there in the end because I did believe that if you work hard enough, then you can achieve a lot.

It’s really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people.

Don’t focus so hard on creating your best life that you wind up missing your life along the way.

Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it’s always going to be there.

Love is hard to find, but love is one of a kind.

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn’t matter what the genre; nowadays, it’s so much harder than it ever was.

I always try to go back and check my old stuff. It’s like watching the tapes of the game. You want to go back and go as hard as before.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.