Before you leave me again, tell me, so I can let you know if I’m ready to watch you go...

Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.

The dreams of a pure life, The dreams of a loving wife, Find pleasure in a Godly life.

A student will find that he is more affected by one book which he has truly mastered than by 20 books which he has merely skimmed.

Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?

Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]

I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

Love isn't an opinion, it's a chemical reaction.

I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.

I always want another actor to shine in my scene because it makes the film stronger. I would encourage people to scene steal, because filmmaking is a collaborative effort.