The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.

Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words.

Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

Keep trying?I'd rather keep walking. I mean, whisky is whisky

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.

We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?

There is no normality in life. Having two houses means that we can get out of each other's hair - which, let's face it, we've both got a lot of.

It's a mistake to dwell too much on the consequences of a piece of work that you're making.

Always keep an eye out for other opportunities.

Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs.

I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, "Oh my God they have this, I want that."

Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.