Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Shall I add a man to my collection?

It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred!

Scheme not to make what's Another's your own; Be not a Dog for the sake of a Bone.

All Hollywood endings - the bad endings have to be the bad guys to be falling about 50 stories to his death and you have to see his eyeballs as he goes to his doom.

All we have is here and now. That's why procrastination feels so right. Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution.

Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.

Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer

What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?

I don’t believe in technique, I believe in performance. If you are tough, whether you have technique or not, you’ll survive.

I don't mean to be bashful, but I was