Venus favors the bold.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Fortunately for serious minds a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.

Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.

Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me.

I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written.

If something rad is going on and it has to do with film, I want to be there. If it's getting coffee, I don't care. It's a passion of mine.

If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.