Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind well controlled achieves peace and happiness.
My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.
I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.
Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?
I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy - there's further to fall. All these little worries.
People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.
It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.
Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
If you take the credit, you lose it. If you give away the credit, it comes back multiplied.
[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'.