He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Liberate your Mind Black Child, free your self from Mental slavery.

It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells.

The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

What you believe one day isn't what you believe the next day and I think every writer secretly believes that they may never be able to do write good song or script again, but they can.

I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over.

The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color?