Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

While I'm more of a soccer and tennis fan myself, I still enjoying catching some football games when I get the chance.

There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.

I'm so much more than just Angelina [Jolie's] brother. I'm also Jon Voight's son and Billy Bob Thorton's brother-in-law.

Sometimes your worst hits in life wind up being your best advantage. If only you could believe that when you're getting hit.

it's just another way to die

I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.