When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.

Life is a never-ending poetry of love.

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today.

To protect us from terrorism, we must have the best, absolutely the best gathering of intelligence anywhere in the world.

Give an average baby a fair chance, and if it doesn't do something it oughtn't to a doctor should be called in at once.

And I like the passion that people have when they're trying to prove they can make a movie or be a movie star.

And isn't it better really to leave things only hinted at?

I'm only a stupid filmmaker.

I couldn't beat people with my strength; I don't have a hard shot; I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.