Some men may be snared by beauty alone, but none can be held except by virtue and compliance.

A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.

The change of the word does not alter the matter

and, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our own notions

Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?

For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtue and obedience.

Pain is knowledge, knowledge is to heal the future.

Aside from the inescapable realities of birth and death, we’re responsible for the paths our lives take. We each make our own choices.

But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it

Ten Delta Airlines baggage handlers were arrested for smuggling drugs into Detroit. Yeah, you can tell Delta was involved, because the drugs were supposed to be smuggled into Chicago.

Boys like a little more booty to hold at night.

But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.

You are no stronger than your belief system.

I think our lack of intimacy with the land has initiated a lack of intimacy with each other. What we perceive as non- human, outside of us, is actually in direct relationship with us.

If there is no dance, there is not music.