I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.

I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer.

I wish I had put myself out there a little bit more and experienced people more instead of protecting myself.

I don't measure success by how many buildings have my name on it.

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.

I'm always researching ancient religions, and I was also raised Jehovah's Witness, so that kind of scarred me for life.

It is necessary to develop a strategy that utilizes all the physical conditions and elements that are directly at hand. The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses.

See me looking like Atlas, when he handle the globe. I see you looking like Alice, Wonderland is your home. It makes me wonder if you practice your flow.

You will learn to defeat the enemy.