Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I like to correct the tests.

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

People will believe absurd things - in the 19th century and now.

I feel like I've never been in a film that people have liked before.

A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.

I do believe that at times God opens some doors and closes others, but our mistake is to confuse an open door for an easy door

The one who actually decided that I should keep my name was my manager, Erv Woolsey.

Terrorists had the advantage of surprise.

Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.

Everything has a price... No matter if it's fortune, fame or your life. I understood later that it's all about paper, Everything has a fee in the land of the free.