A princely mind will undo a private family.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

Once you learn to choose your belongings properly, you will be left with only the amount that fits perfectly in the space you own.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Songwriters are still the brightest people in any room.

Everyone is always asking me about clothes.

I wish everyday could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks.

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.

I don't think films in and of themselves create radical change, but I think a film can contribute to people's understanding and deepen their understanding and help contribute to a shift.

I'm driven. I have the opportunity to change people's lives.