The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

Concentration is the creation of the instrument

Our society doesn't want to help girls like that [in Black Snake Moan]. They just want to use them.

Every single fat comic uses his weight as a punchline. There is something sad about that.

Indeed, only one Supreme Court justice in history, one Horace Lurton, nominated by President [John] Taft, had more federal appeals court experience [than Samuel Alito].

I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered.

The best known evil is the most tolerable.

Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.

I really cherish having my private time and being alone and being able to decompress. It's my own version of meditating.