There won't be any revolution in America ... the people are too clean. They spend all their time changing their shirts and washing themselves. You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.

All I've got against golf is it takes you so far from the clubhouse.

It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by the apprehension that walls have ears.

For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth.

Give if thou can an alms if not a sweet and gentle word.

We just play whatever we're into. For a while there, we weren't listening to too much rap stuff, 'cause there wasn't anything interesting.

The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow after it, haltingly, and not often with much insight into it.

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.

I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.

To mock at a soul in pain is a dreadful thing.

I only had the right to sit in the shadows of the world,in complete silence. Whether I was laughed at, or told I was discusting, or thought of as unpleasant I would sit in the shadows.

You believe that you can win the nomination of your party, and then you believe that you're the strongest candidate to win the election for your party.

President Obama and I can meet, shake hands and discuss current issues, we - and I am personally - are always ready for such contacts.