Men like nails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

Free elections don't always result in fair elections.

Wake up and live your life on your own terms, you are a king in your own kingdom, a god in your own universe

Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow.

Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.

It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.

Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted.

Hope is lived when it comes alive, when we go outside of ourselves and, in joy and pain take part in the lives of others.

It's always weird to shoot when you're really basically not wearing anything.

Through Transcendental Meditation, the human brain can experience that level of intelligence which is an ocean of all knowledge, energy, intelligence, and bliss.

If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks against the yellow drawn shades,-- Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?