You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in everygeneration may not come that far, but none comes further.

A good friend is a balm for the heart.

We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become.

Diamonds are intriscally worthless.

When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.

Super Mario Bros. is equivalent to the Big Bang of our gaming universe. If it were not for this blindingly spectacular creation, digital entertainment as we know it today would not exist.

If women envy men, we can now see that it's because of the privileges their anatomy confers and not the anatomy itself.

God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile.

Maybe Simon Cowell for his effect on music. I call him Slimy Cowpat.

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.