The private citizen beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion will soon see perhaps that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

Imagine for yourself a character a model personality whose example you determine to follow in private as well as in public.

I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play even if they are closely intertwined and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is but I know I have a line.

Praying privately in churches I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now woven into this life.

You can't control the paparazzi. But if you go to Coachella you're going to get photographed. Whereas if you're at home walking down the street you probably won't. It's something I've learnt to navigate my way around but I try to keep my private life private.

I'm a private person too and we don't ever film anything in our home because it's off limits. It's like letting people see your messy house.

The house has to please everyone contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

If history could teach us anything it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.