In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.

When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought".

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.

That's the beauty of art--we strive for perfection but never achieve it. The journey is everything.

Sophie: "For the Create-A-Tale Competition, your story ended with Snow White eaten by vultures and Cinderella drowning her-self in a tub."Agatha: "I thought it was a better ending.

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

It's not virtual reality until you can be tortured to death in it.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Change has to come from outside our corrupt system.

On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance.

You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.