Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.

Ancient custom has the force of law.

That which is built upon the land goes with the land.

The burden of proof lies on the plaintiff.

No one should be twice punished for one crime.

The trodden path is the safest.

Accept only as much ‘cleanliness’ that it won't cause you to worry if it became dirty. Maintain ‘cleanliness’ such that and only to the point that it does not burden you into bondage.

Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.

I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter.

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.

I know that [Sunday is the day you spend with your family] is a tradition that I want to keep alive and I also want to share.

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

And not a single mark on the Lamborghini. Ha! Eat steel, you soul-sucking bastards! (Kyrian)

The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.