If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained.

It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.

One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.

What you can become you are already.

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.

Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards.

In a good play, everyone is in the right.

That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.

The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children.

A scout never comes out to scout a team it's the player that they are scouting.

Train a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.

The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the American people have befriended and supported all those who seek independence and a better way of life.

I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men - it's a gift from God.

I hate to go out on a limb after only one viewing, but Nashville strikes me as Altman's best film, and the most exciting dramatic musical since Blue Angel.

I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.

It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers.

She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with the wrong people.