Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

If you emulate the behaviours of confident people, you will help yourself to become confident.

You don't believe in miracles.""Sure I do. I just haven't seen any lately.

Distance is a bridge, not a gulf, between lovers.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

The more I try to impress people, the more I separate myself from them. Vulnerability attracts love.

I wouldn't mind doing Playboy again. But only if I had creative control.

Directing is much more psychological-it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between two and 500 people asking you a billion questions.

We dominate the scene and we will continue to impose our will on this country.

No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.