I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.