The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.

You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.

You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.

To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.

It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.

You are like a narcotic plant.

The awful penalty of success is the haunting dread of subsequent failure.

It's not about grand gestures.It's not about accolades.It's not about the world.It's about you.

Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

I've been trying to do films for years. So I've decided to wait until the next good part comes along and develop a record on my own in the meantime.

Purify your heart. Cleanse it. Make it a wake-up routine. Your environment may be harsh, difficult and tumultuous but if you work on your heart, you can be calm amidst all those challenges.

Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.

Why do people carry guns? Protection, right? To protect me and myself. Whether it's home protection or street protection.

I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.

Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?