The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

The thing I fear most is fear.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

Misery loves company.

What happened to fun?" "Our insurance doesn't cover it!

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

I do not know whether I have been a good seaman, but I know I have been a very faithful one.

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.

High-level actors can be all about their close-ups and the size of their trailers. I'd heard these horror stories of how a really powerful actor can come in and change your script.

Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us.

The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters.

When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.