Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

I am just a leaf. Just a leaf falling from the tree so that a new bud may grow.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.

I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven't killed a fish that I've caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it.

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

If it's not happening, write your own thing!

For most people, the price for security is personal freedom. And without freedom, many people spend their lives working for money, rather than living out to their dreams

My God, is it possible that all the people have gone mad? The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible as his Satanic Majesty could desire.

Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein?