The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind.

A movie's very different from the book, and it's different from the script, and it's usually one person's vision.

The big problem in making the hard decisions has much to do with the personal and professional well-being of the person making the call.

I'd rather get ten men to do the job than to do the job of ten men.

The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.

When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.

The photo is the most important thing.

In Los Angeles, everything is 100 percent organic, except the people.

And suddenly it didn't seem to matter any more, nothing would matter if she could turn over, turn over and see the stars, turn over and look once and die.

Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.