No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

They find me odd, and whisper behind hands…And my brutal desires sink hooks into their lips…

People want to build new circuits around the world and they say: 'We'll come to Silverstone and have a look how it's done', and I tell them to stay away.

I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really know, I guess.

You don't begin to live, until you've lost everything... I've lost everything three or four times. A perfect place to start.

You can call me 10 times a day to pay this bill but, I do not owe your company any money.

Celebrate our brief moment in the sun

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written that beginning, you have nowhere to go.

As the world gets dumber and dumber, I feel more and more at home.

Facebook is a really exciting place trying to do something really important that I really believe in. And it matters.