Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids.

Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.

Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain, create joy, and increase pity

The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not

Being is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be.

I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about the just and unjust.

If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.

History was a way to live extra lives, to cheat the limits of flesh and blood, to roll the rock back from the tomb and free the resurrected dead.

None of us start out strong ... And none of us have the exact same strengths.

Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

I'm okay with multinational marriage, foreigners are also alright. Mixed blood babies are so pretty.

I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty

Every woman is entitled to an opinion and the right to express that opinion-especially to the man she's married to.

I believe the universe conspires to give you everything you desire.

There's a bit of pressure when you're reimagining something so iconic and loved. But the only way you can really do it is completely reinvent it.