Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

I insist on believing that beauty elevates human beings.

I am more than ever convinced that communism is on the march on a worldwide scale which only America can stop.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

Every morning when I wake and every night when I go to sleep, I'm thinking about what I can do to become a better father and a better person.

Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.

I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion.

Formerly an anti-Semite was somebody who hated Jews because they were Jews and had a Jewish soul. But nowadays an anti-Semite is somebody who is hated by Jews.

Success does not come from having one's work recognized by others. It is the fruit of the seed that you lovingly planted.

Accept that there are things in this world we can never explain and life will be understandable. That is the irony of life. It is also the beauty of it.