“You can’t just decide you want to do this or that. You have to be invited.”

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.

I don’t care what kind it is, just get me a beer.

So who’s on drugs here? He looks as if he’s on drugs.

Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

People think there’s a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.

I’ve never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.

There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.

As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.

Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival.

A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.

If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.

I have frequently been misrepresented. I don’t hate the press; I find a lot of it is very unpalatable.

British women can’t cook.

It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.

The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.

All democratic societies eventually decide what is in favor of them.

He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.

I was sixty-six years old. I still had to make a living. I looked at my social security check of 105 dollars and decided to use that to try to franchise my chicken recipe. Folks had always liked my chicken.

It was only after Pather Panchali had some success at home that I decided to do a second part. But I didn’t want to do the same kind of film again, so I made a musical.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

What you have in most education software is that they’re catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience.

There’s a big difference between a decisive manager and a tyrant.

I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.