As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How well he spoke" but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, "Let us march.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

Sometimes all thats left is faith.

[S]he'd realized that he had loved her only because she belonged to him.

The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty.

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.

I think in international football you have to be able to handle the ball.

The villain is always more entertaining because he has fewer limitations. The hero is bound by honor, by justice and by the law, sometimes.

I appreciate the boldness of gratitude in the quiet, unspoken depths and its ability to buoy another by being articulated.

Why does not the brain adapt to repeated exposure and become indifferent, instead of satisfied?

I don't fear death because I believe it is a transition. Our souls can't be destroyed. I know we are going to live in another life.

Sometimes the shots serve as homages to other movies and other directors, like Hitchcock.