Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy

I see it all perfectly

Do not be a people without a will of your own saying: If others treat well you will also treat well and if they do wrong we will do wrong

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time

It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

It seems to me that you won't have had a proper series of adventures, unless you've gone through thick and thin.

If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.

Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own. If you don't like what somebody says, say what it is you don't like.

If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example.

If everything goes right then I can get going.

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.