To lead people, you must follow behind.

If God lived on Earth, people would knock out all His windows.

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

Too much of everything is just enough.

But if you wish at once to do nothing and to be respectable nowdays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

No problem is so formidable that you can't just walk away from it.

The Hollywood tradition I like best is called "sucking up to the stars."

Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit. [There is no great genius without some touch of madness.]

[The French Riviera is] a sunny place for shady people.

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

Who goeth a-borrowing goeth a-sorrowing.

Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.

If it doesn't smell yet, it's pretty fresh.