When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is Jesus Christ?

If you don't vote Socialist/Communist before you are twenty, you have no heart - if you do vote Socialist/Communist after you are twenty, you have no head.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.

There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.

Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.

The best time of love, is when one goes up the stairs.

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.

It is not an easy thing for a parent of today to bear always in mind that every child of his is as truly an individual as he was when he was a child.

I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall never know.

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

These days the biggest issue is how many calories you consume. So all of this stuff distracts people from thinking about calories.

What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

Just last year i wanted to kill him, but now it is my duty to save him.

The sentiment that I had a little trouble with was the idea that, "You change the school, you change the community." I couldn't wrap my mind around that.