Wearing a hat confers undeniable authority over those without one.

In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.

When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.

To lead others out of darkness, let them see your light.

To ignore your conscience is to invite trouble.

To have grown wise and kind is real success.

Men give their confidence at once, but never their money.

God created the world, but it is the devil who keeps it going.

To live happily with other people one should ask of them only what they can give.

A critic is a virgin who would teach Don Juan how to make love.

As if he hadn't always known he was loved the best. That he was the Beloved.

I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.

There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.

...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.

I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished?

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

My communism attempts basically to create a shared society, that's all; a shared society in which individuality will flourish, along with love, and along with mutual respect.

The capital gains tax is 15 percent now. So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money by capital gains, and I pay 15 percent, and I pay no payroll tax on it.

I am not in the roll of common men.