No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

If you want to glide toward money, you have to make sure your message is clear as a bell, and you need to ensure that you have a unified team capable of communicating it.

There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.

God is able to take the mess of our past and turn it into a message. He takes the trials and tests and turns them into a testimony.

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

What madness! Yet she would do it, if she could force herself. She'd become, she believed, a stronger person: a willful, resolute. Like the man who adored her, reckless.

We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.

Up anchor! Up anchor! Set sail and away! The ventures of dreamland Are thine for a day.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

Film is the greatest teacher because it teaches not only through the brain but through the whole body

The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.