There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!

Go as far as you can see and you will see further.

Once the ego is born into this world, it has to shoulder morality.

Hugs usually mean more than just a hug.

I am not half the man I use to think I was.

I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.

I'm still younger than Jagger... Most people are.

A movie doesn't have to do everything. A movie just has to do a couple of things. If it does those things well and gives you a cool night at the movies, an emotion, that's good enough.

Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder.

God is building Himself in to us, making Himself part of us as the Word rules, dominates and sanctifies our spirit nature.

When the movie get out and people see it. It's not just our neighborhoods that's going through the gangs and going through all type of turmoil; it's other cities and other states and other towns.