The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

there isn't enough of anythingas long as we live. But at intervalsa sweetness appears and, given a chanceprevails.

Bustle about Noddy, or we shant be in time to snabble any of the lobster patties.

I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober.

There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.

We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves.

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

Film has a tendency to be limiting in some way and it shouldn't be. It's a form that can be explored and changed.

The more you try to control something, the more it controls you. Free yourself, and let things take their own natural course.

Spare me the people who ask, 'Have you thought about ... losing weight, hiring an assistant, buying a Pentium, working with an etiquette specialist, coloring your hair?

It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense.