Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

Every shot that kills ricochets.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

Magic is a dangerous thing, child. It isn’t something to use lightly.

Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.

Never have a plan

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe.

Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.

Balance is if you try hard, you work hard then the rewards are in balance with what you put in and what is available.

I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.

There have been times when you doubt yourself. You don't know if you're working on the right things.

I certainly have more enthusiasm when I'm dealing with marginalized people in Japan, and as a creative person I am part of that marginalization.