The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

this observation leads Rozin to a stunning conclusion: "Disgust is the basic emotion of civilization.

When you are no longer a boy, you have to be tough.

My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

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.

I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'