Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

War would end if the dead could return.

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.

The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.

Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

The pain of being alone is completely out of this world, isn't it? I don't know why, but I understand your feelings so much, it actually hurts.

When a man cannot fight he would curse. The gods like to feel needed.

We are the children of one creator. We are different in some ways. Yet, we are equal.

But ask us to prove even to ourselves we are right in our belief, and we are in a quandary.

Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer to our souls.

Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners.

There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.

The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment.

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.