Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

The best friend you will ever find is you. You must love yourself with joy to fill your heart with bliss and happiness.

A gently touching hand is an expression of trust.

Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

Unfortunately, in the very act of weeding, you make it possible for new weeds to grow.

Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.

As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you cant possibly please everyone.

The only thing constant in life is change

Oftentimes I’ll just overflow, and then I’ll need to spend a week alone and not talk to anybody or call anybody.

For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.