Where laws end, tyranny begins.

Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."

An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.

I know that I can save this country and that no one else can.

The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.

The least we each ought to do for someone who treats us like a king or a queen is to treat them like a prince or a princess.

We resemble computers intellectually and animals emotionally.

You're encouraged to do the same kind of movies. But I would like to keep doing different things.

See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire.

Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.

I'm going to be 80, walking with a stick down the runway.

The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.

As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I'm Platonic in that sense.

I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.

It's enthusiasm, not apathy, that makes the world go 'round.