A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

A FriendSomeoneYou're happy to see, Who's happy to see you.SomeoneYou like for who they areNot just for what they can do for you.

Friendships take minutes to make, moments to break, years to repair

...when she wakes up, there is silence, as though the day has held its breath.

There is an animal joy to being young that you can only appreciate when you are old.

I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.

Somehow a U.N. resolution about Syria puts us where we need to be? I think it is a reflection of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's beliefs that our foreign policy gets set by others.

We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.

Once causes are determined, then there is talk of "social injustice" and the privileged begin to resist.

Farmers...can no longer keep up with rising demand; thus the outlook is for chronic scarcities and rising prices.

I'm never aiming to make a movie like someone else's movie, but in order to describe a movie to someone else who hasn't seen it, you usually have to reference things they have seen.