We don't go to school to learn, but to be soaked in the prejudices of our class, without which we should be useless and unhappy.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

My ego is my employee – and I, the witness, am its employer.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything let us examine how happy they are who already possess it.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour.

The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and die, never to be remembered.

It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

I want to be inspired by the characters that I play and excited by the projects that I do.

A lot of the players I'm with, thank God, we're all still vertical. We've lost so many great players through the years, and we're still standing, as Elton John says.

If I'm remembered for having done a few good things and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.