Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

If you are not selfish and greedy, you picked up riches along the street.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing - continue to rock it - because obviously, God wants you here.

I've had the same core group of friends that I've always had. We're surfing, so that definitely keeps you grounded.

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

I made a fatal error thinking he could save me.

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

Dancing of the autumn leaves on the surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake!

Everything you think of that keeps you occupied is a friend.

Love is luring us forward...to the fullness of our own being