Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

... what you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.

As we decipher our biology and learn to modify and adjust it, we are learning to modify ourselves - and we will do so. No laws will stop this.

I make movies. I'm not in politics.

Being short and seeing a promoter take the stock up is very irritating. It's not worth it to have that much irritation in your life.

If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.

Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.

No generation can escape history.

The purest water is formed by flowing through the muddiest mountains

No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.