Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

All limitations are self-imposed.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.

put out the candles with your fire—I’m on fire

We observe that one of the great attributes of discretion is that it can mask ignorance of all the most common and lowly varieties, and Walter Moody was nothing if not excessively discreet.

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

I thought maybe I would be everyone's favorite dude-food friend.

One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East. It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music.

That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.

The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.

I feel very at home in an empty church. I feel the most protected. It's very mystical.

Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.