Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer.

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

Say your heart out.. work that dream out.. for the time won't be back again.

If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should run for my life.

What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.

Laughing at ones own attempt at humor while saying things just come to me should be punishable by death.

When you have 8,000 veterans a year committing suicide, then you have a serious problem.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

When it comes to how much attention something gets or how much attention it draws, I really kind of just try to expect nothing at this point. Whatever it turns into, it turns into.

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.