The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Trees are your best antiques

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.

Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

As more and more artificial intelligence is entering into the world, more and more emotional intelligence must enter into leadership.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.

It was amazing how much rehearsal helped with the performance - it was almost a theatrical approach to filmmaking.

Being a singer now I have to get all fussy... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that.

With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you're on page 300. You can't do that with film. It just charges ahead.

You can't control a superstar that has an ultimate green light. That's impossible.

After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?

Fiction. . . . It's like goading a mongoose and a cobra into battle and staying with them to see who wins.

The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.