Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.

Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.

Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.

In Ireland, there are the same fossils, the same shells and the same sea bodies, as appear in America, and some of them are found in no other part of Europe.

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope the real existence of all these little beings.

There is nothing good in love but the physical part.

Time is the great workman of Nature.

Style is the essence of man

The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.

The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file

When most people think about my work, they think about diet. To me, diet has always been the least interesting part of it.

An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.

Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!

When you're playing a man, you can look tired and horrible and you still look okay. As a woman, if you're tired, it's terrible. It was such a luxury not having to worry about that.

I had a lot of maturing I had to go through. I consider myself a smart individual in seeing that this is not the road I want to take.

I can only go places because I know that I can go away from them, if that makes sense. I like the gypsy lifestyle that filming affords.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

Study people's success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.

Truth is more than a mental exercise.