Out of Africa, there is always something new.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

From the end spring new beginnings.

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

In wine, there's truth.

We must do all that depends on us to advance the kingdom of God

A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.

Temperance is the control of all the functions of our bodies. The man who refuses liquor goes in for apple pie and develops a paunch is no ethical leader for me.

If you think it's hard getting in, you should try getting out.

Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me.

A bottle of wine was good company.

It doesn't matter what answers you get if you ask the wrong questions.

I feel like I'm the worst, so I always act like I'm the best.

Art and life go together. I have to have a life filled with experiences to make art, and I have to have art around me to live well.

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.