Emotion which you do not share can become intolerable.

Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.

if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.

REMIND ME AGAIN, he said, HOW THE LITTLE HORSE-SHAPED ONES MOVE.

There are many things that are still uncertain and that probably nobody knows, because so many factors determine what form the transformation of consciousness on our planet takes.

I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than make the kind of 'entertaining' film that everyone feels ambivalent about.

I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.

When we are made right with God, we begin to think right, we begin to talk right, and we begin to act right.

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

We've going to bring back thighs. Enough of these size zeros. Thighs, and back fat, and over-the-belt fat, it's all got to come back again, and we're the ones to do it.

I'm just trying to figure out the right balance between making fans feel good and also maintaining some dignity for myself in the process.