A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Selfishness keeps man blind through life.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.

This story has no moral. If it points out an evil at any rate it suggests no remedy.

Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar.

When you live next to death ... you don't think about it anymore, you just try to encounter it as seldom as possible.

The greatest obstacle to liberty is not the existence of evil rulers, but the belief in the existence of good rulers.

Words once spoken can never be recalled.

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.

No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.

I have to be able to pull you in. How can I diversify my audiences? What role do I have to play to be part of that shift? I have to take that seriously.

I have this mental sickness called creativity.

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.