I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.

In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.

I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for him whether he deserves it or not.

I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.

Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.

In the writer's mind, even a backstory has a backstory.

You know it's real when reality becomes a dream, the dream becomes real, and real feels unreal

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

They're not prosthetics. They're my bones. They come out when I’m inspired. They've always been inside of me, but I have been waiting for the right time to reveal to the universe who I truly am.

As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.

I produce but I'm producing work that I can be in.

Hatred and sorrow are power. They are yours to control. All you have to do is turn them into strength, and use that strength to move forward.

It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.

Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.

My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.