Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Fear can't hurt you. When it washes over you, give it no power. it's a snake with no venom.

Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

The best way to get what you want is to realize you already have it.

[Moses] Mendelssohn was a religious Jew. I felt sorry for him.

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

What does it profit a 78-year-old woman to sit around the pool in a bikini if she cannot feed herself?

I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed? He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not playing croquet when you’re doomed?

What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.