Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.

My biggest challenge is being in a small town and not being able to meet a lot of people.

I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.

If you don't believe in yourself how will somebody else believe in you?

If you're talking about crowd enthusiasm, it varies. I have a decent following in Australia so I like there. I'm interested in playing everywhere.

But how right is it to kill a man for something that is in his soul?

Once you learn how to make people laugh, then you get to choose exactly how you want to make them laugh.

Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos.

Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you; it is your murderer, and the murderer of the world: use it, therefore, as a murderer should be used. Kill it before it kills you.

A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,-by deeds, not years.