Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

Dare to risk public criticism.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

Courage is grace under pressure.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

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

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

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

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

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.