Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

If we live within the boundaries God has prescribed for us, we realize that our boundaries grow and there’s plenty of freedom…

I have yet to figure out a better way to combat hate than to love harder.

Religion of Blue CircleTo bring and give a lesson, is to leave the last lesson not pronounced.Amen, Petra Cecilia Maria HermansAugust 29, 2016AmenGod

The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels.

Serenity of manners is the zenith of beauty.

I suppose romantically there are fantasies that can still be realized. But not professionally.

I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker.

I've done collaborations with Scott [Morgan, aka Loscil] in the past, but it is something that kind of appeals to me these days.

Everything happens for a reason; I'm a big believer in that.

Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.