There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Stop inviting people who don't celebrate you to your party! It's YOUR life - you have the right to be exclusive.

... waiting for the spell to end, as all spells must.

No other place can so convincingly claim to be the capital of capitalism, the capital of the 20th century and the capital of the world.

When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.

People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.

Here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage. Here I go, playing star again. There I go, turn the page.

It must be made possible for the one to live vicariously the life of the many from the beginning.

Profits are what you make when not working.

I do feel for me that cinema has somehow ceased to be a spectator sport. I get tremendous excitement out of making it rather than watching it.

Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence, hearing the Word, seeing love.