Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.

The past is never where you think you left it.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

You waste life when you waste good food.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

What we need now is endless courage.

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

Success does not come to a person’s life by chance you have to fight for it

What’s the point of living if you don’t live.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

The dark uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

Do not vote for Hillary [Clinton] because she is a woman. Ask yourself, who has done more for women so far and who will do more for women in the future - and then make your choice.

The point of life is happiness.

When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.

What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave.

Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.