I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With their jangling keys, nasty suits, revolting beards, moustaches and tinted spectacles, estate agents roam the land causing perturbation and despair. If you try and kill them, you're put in prison: if you try and talk to them, you vomit. There's only one thing worse than an estate agent but at least that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed. Estate agents. Love them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool. [Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.]

The best thing you can do is get good at being you.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there light is from within.

When man to man shall be friend and brother.

More than we use is more than we want.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

It can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.

To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless.

The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.