From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes

You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

You have yourself to blame.

A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.

Every director works differently.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them.

I am not a woman staying at home.

The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

I just always wanted to be a singer. My mom said I was even singing in my cot!

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.