The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

There is no 'the truth, ' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

I don't spend too much time just kicking back.

Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.

Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.

Mordre wol out, that se we day by day.

The expert at anything was once a beginner.

Revolution by its nature can not be overly programmed or directed. There are so many forces at work that you don't know where and how it all ends.

In "Drive," there's a heightened male edge. In "Only God Forgives," it was almost crawling back into the womb of the mother. And now with "The Neon Demon," being reborn as a 16-year-old girl.

Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.