“Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.”

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion but rather to know it.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

If you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper – and despise it.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.

Modesty and unselfishness – these are the virtues which men praise – and pass by.

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He’s amazing really.

You have three teachers next to you every game, and if I’m not playing, I’m watching baseball.

It burns in every nook and cranny of the ethnological world, burning

Nearly every one of these – from R2D2 to Hellboy’s revolver – ends with the paint job. And it’s not just cosmetic.

Some real well thought out stuff. But I don’t know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.

I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.

We must win the common people in every corner.

I think every person has the ability to affect change…through our every thought our every word, the way that we interact with other people.