He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.

I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).

Good families are generally worse than any others.

When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.

I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.

It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.

I have no regrets because I know I did my best - all I could do.

It all starts from the lyric with me. If I work really hard on the lyric and get it right, then it will tell me whatever else to do, where to go.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.