To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

All perfection is melancholy.

there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.

You must persistence long enough to triumph.

We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.

You're called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.

I have a good friend who says, "We're all just dodging bullets." It seems to me the trick to living a good life is to try to move away from the gun you turn on yourself.

The difference between a 'wise guy' and a wise man is plenty!

The bone-breaking thing is something that I put in many narratives.

South of Somewhere and north of Nowhere.

By day I was a slave; by night, I was a prince.

The only way for peace between the races is a separation of the races.

I always wanted to direct. I always saw myself as a director.