Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there. [Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.]

You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class). [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

He who conquers, endures.

Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser.

Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it.

The belly is the giver of genius.

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.

The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.

Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.

Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!

It's nice to be able to do things for other people, isn't it?That's why it's fun to talk in the third person sometimes.

I once dealt with a prima donna on a movie set. I won't say who, but his first name is a country. A communist country. Run by Fidel Castro.

From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series.

The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.

A lot of filmmakers from my generation were lucky enough to have their work more or less perpetuated by people who saw them originally on TV and on HBO and certainly on home video.

A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

Succeeding in business is all about making connections

He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.