No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

I never saw a purple cow; I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one.

The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.

To have sinned and wake up the next day is truly a miracle, repent.

He was the best shot in India, and I expect that there are few better in London. Have you heard the name?''No, I have not.''Well, well, such is fame!

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.

There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something you are to do, which no one else can do.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society.

Don’t major on the fall, major on getting up!

Have a go-to pump up song. Mine is Shakira's 'Waka Waka' from the 2010 World Cup (don't judge). Play it only when you're ready to turn into your most badass self.

If some of my judgments were wrong - and some were wrong - they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the nation.