I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Most of our people have never had it so good.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

I have learned that in all negotiations nothing matters except the will to reach agreement.

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

I'd like that translated, if I may.

There was the amount of time you'd known someone and then there was the way you'd spent that time.

I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

I bartended for a catering company for two or three years...

You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor.

The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.

The only prudence in life is concentration.

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

Injury taught me I need to learn how to face challenges.