When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Surround yourself with family and treasure your time together. Family aren’t always blood. They’re the people in your life who want you in theirs

This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves.

Obviously, you never shoot the scenes of a film in order or only very rarely.

Somewhere there is an essence. It is not a physical somewhere. There is no sense of world, of time and space. That is nirvana.

A premium support program is different than a voucher program. They're just fundamentally different.

Help yourself and God will help you

Whenever something good happens to me, I try-it may sound kind of bad-to think a little negative. I just always try to keep myself grounded.

I have a strong and strange character, and I've rarely met directors who knew what to do with this character. One of the few who did was my father, and in the theatre, Arthur Nauzyciel.

I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.

I think fame is harder when people have something to hide, but I'm very comfortable, and have nothing to hide.