“Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.”

“You can't direct a Laughton picture. The best you can hope for is to referee.”

“Spirit is like the wind, in that we can't see it but can see its effects, which are profound.”

“You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves.”

“You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.”

“If you can't be direct, why be?”

“But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail.”

“Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If he can't pretend that, he will look through the object, or round it, or above it or below it, or in any direction except into it. If, however, you force him to look into it, he will at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.”

“You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.”

“You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.”