I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

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

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

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

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.