It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.

Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.

As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers.

Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.

What is called poetic insight is the gift of discerning, in this sphere of strangely-mingled elements, the beauty and the majesty which are compelled to assume a garb so sordid.

Angels do not toil, but let their good works grow out of them.

he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.

When he is cheerful--when the sun shines into his mind--then I venture to peep in, just as far as the light reaches, but no further. It is holy ground where the shadow falls!

... for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.

Jim Crow, moreover, was seen executing his world-renowned dance, in gingerbread.

Might and wrong combined, like iron magnetized, are endowed with irresistible attraction.

A smart model is a good model.

Don’t stop searching for opportunities until opportunities find you.

If you can't write your message in a sentence you can't say it in an hour.

What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.

It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.

From Gadamer I learned that to understand a given thinker requires one to presuppose that he is right.

There's only five real people in Hollywood. Everyone else is Mel Blanc.

In the case of Wilderpeople, I walked on the first day with some apprehension actually; because it doesn't come anywhere close to anything I've really played before, this part.

I think it mostly comes down to trying to align with people who are down with a mission and will bring optimism.

He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.