Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.

Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.

Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

I am yet to meet the idiot at whose door success arrived as a direct result of his refusal to invest in the enterprise that made him rich.

If we were to behave half as well as we believe others ought to behave, we might prove ourselves as grand in character as excuses and justifications prevent us from being.

When things don't go the way you want them to, sometimes instead of feeling disappointment or heartache, you just become numb.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings - not your birthdays.

I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

Only when we have enough mental stress to force us to see our own bankruptcy of power, do we trust in God, and only when we trust in God can we make a contribution which will not collapse.

I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.

When I first heard about Y Combinator, it was one of those ideas that just seemed forehead-slappingly obvious. Good ideas often do, in retrospect.

By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.