Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

Reading doesn't put you to sleep... it makes you dream...

The true religion is to be posited not in the knowledge or confession of what God allegedly does or has done for our salvation, but in what we must do to become worthy of this.

Everything's uglier up close.Not you.

I quickly learned, however, that a university education is not a prerequisite to reading Shakespeare. After all, his original audience was not college-educated. Neither was he.

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

I don't really need a lot of help from a director.

Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.

True leadership means to receive power from God and use it under God's rule to serve people in God's way.

I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.