It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!

Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

English physicians kill you, the French let you die.

I remember people saying to us, "You're too nice. Hollywood is going to eat you up and spit you out." I never listened to them.

I'm a bad traveller because I suffer from travel sickness.

Art, for me, has always been a ticket for experience.

It took like 5 hours to complete my virgin Mary. I was raised Catholic and it seemed like a good idea.

I bet dying vultures have lots of awkward moments with their friends. - Guy Endore

My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.