There were some things you did, no matter what, and when a friend needed help, you helped them.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

Nobody knows anything.

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.

Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

how is it thathe's alwaysin my thoughts. even when i am not thinking.

Who cares what insecure people think who are insanely jealous that you are OK with yourself?

I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home.

There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles.

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

I understand the sensitivities of grown children with little ones of their own!! They'll turn away a mother full of advice, but they'll never say no to one holding a mop.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Yet some say Love by being thrall And simply staying possesses all In several beauty that Thought fares far To find fused in another star.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.

The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis.