A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

I have really good instincts about friends.

I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.

I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those things. There's no one thing.

Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

Marriage is an excercise in learning our flaws everyday

Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism.

In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.