I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

A good liar must have a good memory.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

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

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

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

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Dare to risk public criticism.