How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him...two.

A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

Marriage is one sweet way in which one can taste heaven on earth. Similarly, I can also become hell on earth.

Without St. George, that balance would tip. Without the Order, there would be nothing to stop Talon and the Elder Wyrm from achieving what they wanted from the start: complete and utter dominion.

This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . . . and the world waits while she powders her nose.

How many a poor immortal soul I have met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it [an oversized home].

I wouldn't change my past for anything, because I think it's made me who I am. I'm so enormously grateful for all that I have in my life.

I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that.

There's no such thing as good weather, or bad weather. There's just weather and your attitude towards it.

Speed takes a little bit of getting used to, but rules have to be followed. At any speed, the more you run, the more you get used to it.

Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would... make money.