A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

Dream!Forge yourself and riseOut of your mind and into others.Men, be women.Fish, be flies.Girls, take beards.Sons, be your mothers.The future of the world now liesIn coral wombs behind our eyes.

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.

I want to make someone walk straight, but I've left my sons nothing but wars.

While I like people, I do also like being alone in a room and seeing what you can do with a particular theme or subject.

If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!

You're not really just a filmmaker that makes a movie good most of the time. It's everybody involved; it's a collective effort.

What if miliseconds influence centuries?

It's all about having fun and smiling and shaking hands.

What I wanted was just to make music, and so, originally I just wanted to hide behind the album cover of the last record, and I wanted it to be almost anonymous.