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

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

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

God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.

Words pay no debts.

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

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

I live by good soup, and not on fine language.

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?