It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

I believe only in one God, creator of everything that exists, visible and invisible, good and evil. I believe that he will ultimately save every soul and give it eternal life.

His supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show where the dangers are.

No one is as brave, as adventurous or as skillful as D'Artagnan, without at the same time being inclined to be a dreamer.

Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.

To be whole, we need to embrace bothintuition and logic.

I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine.

I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz for Himmler.

Murder will out, this my conclusion.

Try a rocket launcher. Think maybe you could manage to hit me with that?

When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in.