One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

As a Western, ‚The Magnificent Seven‘ was a pretty good film. I don’t think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as ‚Seven Samurai.‘

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Music is like film to me.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

The ways of the Lord are different from the ways of man. Man’s ways remove people from office or business when they grow old or become disabled. But man’s ways are not and never will be the Lord’s ways.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

The brain is wider than the sky.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

I’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

As a British driver, you get compared to Lewis and I get that. But when he came to McLaren, they were doing well and had a championship-winning car. I’m in a very different situation so I don’t compare myself to his stats.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.