I never got into being an artist. For me, it's always more research, storytelling, maybe technological experimental. It's more like a laboratory setting.

The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

Sometimes it's better to not read too much, to not listen to everybody.

Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

I'm very happy to have won three big titles with Chelsea in a short time.

I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their...

I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.

As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw anything but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at...

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

I'm not one to think of burying my head in the sand - I've always been a positive person and still am now.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for...

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.