Unexemplary words and unfounded doctrines are avoided by the noble person. Why utter them?

Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.

Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. 

Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?

It is impossible to translate the poets. Can you translate music?

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.