A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other’s company.

With diligence, discipline and determination you can fulfill the dream.

Tread not into the fearsome nightBut pull the covers high, Step not into the wild dark woodFor the Hobbers are dancing nigh

When presented with an open door in your job, drive a Mack truck through it.

I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.

Let us impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves, to the whole family of mankind.

I think the power of image is in mystery - I endlessly create mysteries, by way of this dystopian message, to initiate intrigue.

Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.

By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.

My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.