Young heads take example of the ancient.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

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

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.