Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

I soon had to admit that what I did by myself couldn't excite me, only what Lila touched became important.

Suffering and pain are always obligatory for a broad consciousness and a deep heart. Truly great men I think, must feel great sorrow in this world.

Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to listen to her dictating to her secretary one of those romantic novels that she turned out fortnightly.

How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.

Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory.

I wouldn't call it a silver lining, but with more women speaking up, online harassment is beginning to be taken more seriously.

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap: Who sows the false shall reap the vain.

Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.

It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.