He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.

I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning—raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.

I couldn't think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I've seen it destroy people.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

I love my fans so much! I know I say it all the time, but I really appreciate all the things they have done for me.

A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

The Democrats should not waiver on our core beliefs and principles.

I forgive everyone. There's no reason to hold anything against someone. Revenge is over with.

I'm interested in that hybrid - the place between the real world and my imagination. There's a friction that's created between the things we imagine and the things that exist.