Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

Friendship and money: oil and water.

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.

Exercises cultivated self-reliance - the foundation of courage.

And if I am elected, I promise the formation of a new party, a third party, a wild party.

But we were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure.

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.

I like to create an atmosphere where actors feel safe enough to take risks.

To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt bulb in an expensive one.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

I am a believer that color affects people's moods.

I still feel like no one knows who I am. I still feel anonymous.