The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

Music is the brandy of the damned.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.

The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.