Only the mediocre are always at their best.

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

The secret of success is sincerity.

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.

Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.

Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.

The theatre is like a Catholic Mass of language.

There are no great people. There are only great topics.

Im not afraid of death. Its the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.

Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

I am putting pressure on myself to do my best and perform to my potential.

As the Republicans run to the crazy Tea Party right, they leave behind the huge mass of genuinely moderate and independent Americans that make up the majority of voters. The ones that used to consider themselves now-extinct moderate Republicans. They're up for grabs. And the Democrats have to grab them!

Do not allow obligation or immediacy to bind you to physical things or specific actions.

But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.

The process of love sometimes means unexpected detours.

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

To me, there's nothing greater than making people laugh.

It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.

I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.'

In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.

You need to set near-term milestones. Put the assumptions down on paper, and make it to your vision or ultimate product. Your team has to understand where they're going. Your partners need to understand where they're going.

If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.

I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result.