Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

A wet spot on the floor kind of put a scare in myself, so you never know inside those lines what might happen.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

I’m odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I’ll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

I don’t care if you get up in the morning and don’t wash, don’t put any make-up on, don’t do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

You don’t carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.