The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.

What worries you, masters you.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Revolt is the right of the people

But even a kid, directing was something that I did. I made short films in school. I feel like I've been in the best film school in the world.

Tradition is a challenge to innovation.

When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics

At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

Building the future, and keeping the past alive - are one and the same thing.

Love which economizes is never true love.

The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so fixed in advance that it can never be modified.

I have this whole thing: if you look good, you feel good, and if you feel good, you look good.

You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does.

O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters; and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair.