Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?

I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be interesting.

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.

One of the most ephemeral and important things is atmosphere and tone and it's very hard to put your finger on what creates that.

Never criticize, unless you can do a better job.

Sometimes the dues we pay to maintain integrity are pretty high, but the ultimate cost of moral compromise is so much higher.

Desmond Mason is one of my best friends in the world. And he's a great, great talent.

I'm such a tease And you're such a flirt... Routines and schedules Drug and kill you Kill you.