Ever since time began the world has seemed stupid to those who aren't stupid themselves. It was to avoid that annoyance that I became stupid myself, as fast as ever I could. Sheer egoism, no doubt.

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.

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

Now, I simply won’t let my friends, the people who trusted me, be bothered and badgered about

Throughout the nation's history, the national destiny of the United States has been understood in antimilitaristic, libertarian terms.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

I think we impress people by our success, but I think we impact them by our failures.

Sincerity is the most compendious wisdom.

To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

Trump is trying to do a lot of really big things. And he's actually getting a lot of big things done.

It is better to die in hope than live in despair.