If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does straight to our emotions deep into the twilight room of the soul.

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness but with energy and above all with illusions I pulled through them all.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

You have to be a little bit crazy to run for president.

Opposition is not there to stop you, it’s there to establish you.

If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on what they learn to their children.

It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he shall go with hundreds of companions to see someone else play well.