I say to the paparazzi, ‚Fellas, take your shot and go.‘ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Words are loaded pistols.

I do not see myself as a celebrity or an icon or things like that… I have not really done anything.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

A witty saying proves nothing.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don’t know what that is; I don’t think too much about that.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can’t not be what everyone says I am. But I don’t feel like an icon.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

I can resist everything except temptation.

What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they’re like, ‚Hey! All right, all right, all right!‘

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

I like making things. I don’t like getting my picture taken.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

There is nothing so stable as change.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

But, you know, it’s still a drag to get your picture taken when you’re eating a sandwich. It’s a downer.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

At my advanced age – I’m now an octogenarian – I’m constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

I couldn’t take pictures of green rolling hills.

I think – I don’t know, maybe it’s nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be – it’s gone. It’s going to be gone.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn’t really bother me.

Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama’s favorite actors.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?