Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

-Do you think it's dirty money?-All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.

I've been trying to figure that out since I met him. I've had more luck trying to smell the color nine.

The sky of the color of ashes in the east and embers in the west.

We're a family operation. There's not many of us. We have a couple people who come from time to time who work with us. Two of my sons are themselves filmmakers, and we can't afford them nor they us.

We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.

It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.

I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.

whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

I don't look at scripts in terms of commerciality. I just look at the part, the people involved.

The more God gives you, the more responsible he expects you to be.