There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.

Too much truth Is uncouth.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

You do not know what you can miss before you try.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.

As I have been paving my career as a filmmaker my parents have been there for me every step of the way. They have believed in my dreams despite how steep the mountain has been.

If you have any requests. keep them to yourselves. we don't play requests!

Men of principle are sure to be bold, but those who are bold may not always be men of principle.

Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.

Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.

Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?