Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

Wit is educated insolence.

Figuring out what you want in life is hard, having the courage to full fill it is even harder!

Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength.

I've always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I'm an actor, but felt sorry for me because they'd never seen anything I've done.

No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.

If there were a god, don't you think he would have flicked Hitler's head off?

Some people 'go' through life; and other people 'grow' through life. Which one are you?

I want everyone out there in TV land to touch the TV. Touch the back of the TV and get a shock for Jesus.

too great pity is the greatest cruelty.

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.