A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.

I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.

Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

We all give up great expectations along the way.

I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.

I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.

Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.

That is what's meant by being afraid of the future, by showing how brilliant you come out of it.

Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.

Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.

I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.

I had always assumed that the right way to do it was to these engineers, put them in offices by themselves with doors that they could close so they could think deep thoughts. This is a terrible idea.

Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.

The measure of your character is not what you do when people are looking. It’s what you do when you think no one is looking.

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

And the things you know before you hear them; these are you and the reason you are in the world.