“I’ve always thought men and women are not too well suited to each other. It’s inevitable that they should come together, but, again, how well suited are they to live together in the same house?”

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.

I’m an atheist, and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.

You give because you love and cannot help giving.

Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you’ve got less to sell.

I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.

Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.

I don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.

I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.

If you follow all of the rules, you’ll miss all of the fun.

There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.

Never complain. Never explain.

To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then ‘act as if’ you know how to do the rest.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.

Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.