Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Dogs have their day but cats have 365.

I am the scourge of God

Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.

You just make the best movie you can and hope for the best, because you don't have any control over what happens with the movie, whether the movie is misinterpreted.

Have you ever tried?" "No." Then don't tell me I can't.

Even if at first you do succeed, you still have to work hard to stay there.

A lot of people don't believe in what they are doing. They just want the crowd to scream for them.

I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you.

I just find in our world that forgiveness is becoming more and more a difficult thing for us to do.

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.