Lying, like license, has its degrees.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

If you begin to read, you find the answers you seek.

Decide to be rich! Hate poverty strong.

Have you noticed we can breathe in here too?Gosh, I wouldn't have picked up on that.

The miracle of life is faith.

Finally, a human man saw me as intensely valuable. Just my luck he was happily married and thought I was a freak.

Some people can handle alcohol. You know who you are. Some people can't handle alcohol. The police know who you are.

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.

People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.

The more I know about myself the more dynamic I become, the more expansive I become.

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.