Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.

You only encounter problems that You can handle!!!!

The idea that property has overcome our personalities is the single reason we'll miss the best part of our lives. It's people, not possessions that make our lives worth living.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

We have a responsibility to look after our planet. It is our only home.

I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!

There are no rules in filmmaking

LOVE your taste in subject matter... perfect summer reading!

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

When you're young and fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.