The voice of the people is the voice of God. (Vox populi vox dei.)

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

If you always live with those who are lame you will yourself learn to limp.

The clothes make the man.

It's an ill plan that cannot be changed.

Deliberation often loses a good chance.

By learning you will teach by teaching you will learn.

He fights with spirit as well as with the sword.

Fortune is fickle and soon asks back what he has given.

We are content to forgo joy when pain is also lost.

God will be present whether asked or not.

For the believer there is hope beyond the grave, because Jesus Christ has opened the door to heaven for us by His death and resurrection.

Most men would rather be shot through with a broad-headed arrow than be described by you.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.

I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.

My compulsion is to create things.

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

Making a movie is like getting married. You're like, "Am I going to marry this project? Am I ready for that kind of commitment?"

Men don't hear women.