By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull!' he said. 'It is in danger of splitting its skull against my knuckles. By God! Mr. Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down!

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

I will walk where my own nature would be leading.

No coward soul is mine.

I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

Computers double their performance every month.

If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes.

I very much like dance and dancers.

There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.

I love to go back and write and direct another film one day, but that's on the backburner for now because I'm involved with so much television at the moment.

If I ever get to go to the moon, I'll probably just stand on the moon and go 'Hmmm, yeah...fair enough...gotta go home now.'

One never knows what life may have in store for us, and it's always good to know where the emergency exit is.

Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine.

Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

Populism is everywhere. We have religious populism in the Muslim-majority countries as much as we have populism in the United States of America.