I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.

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.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.

It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.