Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.

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.

There is strength in numbers, yes, but even more so in collective good will. For those endeavors are supported by mighty forces unseen.

Sam and Caine were left standing side by side, bruised and battered, to stare over Penny's sickening corpse, at the face of their mother.

Making films is too big an undertaking to be doing it on a whim, so you're waiting all the time, until you finally meet the person who gets it.

I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or reconstructing my website or whatever it may be. I just love putting creativity into a performance.

When you see somebody actually be able to channel that into an accessible, beautiful tool, you start to see the craftsman behind it.

We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod.

I don't know if I'm built for marriage.

No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one

Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.