In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.
The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.
I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
