I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

Smile and Slay.You have to slay it in life or life will slay you.

Until Africa changes it's Mindset - It will forever be a "basket case" looking for international support, funding and charity.We need to Rethink Innovation

I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?

The borrower is servant to die lender.

Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.

I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind

I feel like any time I'm doing what I love, my big pay-off is watching somebody else be the receiver.

Anything worthwhile is hard, and dancing is very hard, and if you've ever studied dancing of any kind you'd know that to be in precision, three people dancing together.

Every religion, every philosophy, every individual outlook on life tells a story of reality.

When the facts change, I change my mind.