... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...

Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.' 'I don't want to make it easier for you,' I said; 'I hope your heart may break; but I do understand.

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher