Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

A habit does not a monk make.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

Daily life, the sacred time of a man.

...a thriller's toughest trick: carefully assembling everything we think we know, until it reveals the one thing we didn't see coming.

Joseph lost his son and Christ. (Joseph a perdu - Son fils et Jésus.)

Funniness is genetic.

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

I know thousands of German's who are totally different from me, so we're not alike, we're not the same.

I was massively jealous but also excited when Tarantino did Inglourious Basterds, I'm a huge guys on a mission fan. Those kind of movies.

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.

I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People just indiscriminately say "memoir" now when it's a person writing about their own life.

There's no such thing as 'too late!' That's why they invented death!