I never saw Death before, and now I seeThat it is warring eyes in a woman's form.

It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues, Which moves the world.

Make foes of bowmen if you must, Never of penmen.

Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert, Gathers and melts.

Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.

When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed.

It is politics to please and hoodwink thoseWho flatter but despise us.

Those are fools however learnedWho have not learned to walk with the world.

Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival.

The immoral can no more earn respectThan the envious be rich.

Folded hands may conceal a dagger --Likewise a foe's tears.

I don't even take myself seriously, so how could I possibly take Hollywood seriously?

When building sand castles on the beach, we can ignore the waves but should watch the tide.

Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge.

Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks.

As I already explaned, I don't have any form. I'm a conceptual metaphysical object.

Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws. [Lat., Vir bonus est quis? Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.]

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.

Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.

Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without a source - the "author" a mere "guest" at the reading of the Text.