So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .

One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.

How gleefully life shreds our well crafted plans.

The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns.

I wish, he thinks, spoken words could be captured and kept in a locket.

What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell: it's self-justifyin's.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature.

But thought has no eyelids to close or ears to block...

Anna would like you, he thinks, looking into her face. Anna would like you.

I find a certain comfort, " confesses Marinus, "in humanity's helplessness.

Leadership. When you attract more skilled people than you.

From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty

The landscape for business isn’t changing because of social media, it’s changing because consumer expectations are evolving.

I've had some great times with actresses, but that's in a movie.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.

How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home.

Taxi Driver' is a movie that changed my life and made me a serious actor. Scorsese and De Niro. I give credit for anything that I've ever done as an actor.

People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.