beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.

It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.

I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.

It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.

Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.

They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.

When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.

Litigation only makes lawyers fat.

Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.

I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?

You don't have to fight with anybody else than you yourself to become a WINNER. The day you win over yourself, your success journey starts from then!!!

Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen.

It deserves and warrants conversation because somebody is saying, 'Hey, this offends me,'

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

Play on the frontiers of technology. Be ahead of the tomorrows.

Oh, scientific mind. You get all your data from us, the senses, but without us you would be nothing.

I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

What's weird about the cinema business is that you have to have a thick skin while remaining vulnerable as an artist. It comes with time. You get dumped, your heart gets broken.

The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.

It was very much that feeling of having worked so hard on Da Vinci's for three years without seeing sunlight that, unless the right thing came along, I didn't want to do it.