Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

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

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Humility is attentive patience.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

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

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.