The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.

Anyone can perform good deeds for an audience

I proceeded in my national mission, seeking to pave the way for an understanding between His Majesty and the other ruling princes of Arabia.

If honor calls, where'er she points the way The sons of honor follow, and obey.

I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.

In the Iowa senate, I helped pass the largest tax cut in state history - returning over four billion dollars in savings and putting more money back in the pockets of hard-working Iowa families.

Life can be difficult for kids born with a gold spoon in their mouth, because they never really get to find out if they're able to work hard and make it on their own.

I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going to go.

It is just that heavy metal musicians write in minor keys, and when you do that, you frighten people.

My scripts are possibly too talkative.