Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

What others will think?” has killed the most dreams, Living the mainstream has never been the mainstream, Free people know how to live without remorse, They know ships aren’t meant to stay at shores.

I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you... and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No you is educated who cannot educate himself.

For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

After all the evidence is in--after you've run all the facts by everything you know--and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith.

I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School.

I've been showing up late and dirty all my life.

To be a legend, you generally had to be dead.

Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save foolishness or incompetence, and no obscenity save the tyranny of custom.

Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.