Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it