The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose and the consequences are nearly always the same.

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

Virtue like a dowerless beauty has more admirers than followers.

Happiness consists not in having much but in being content with little.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

Genius is the gold in the mine talent is the miner that works and brings it out.

Borrowed thoughts like borrowed money only show the poverty of the borrower.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached but great men resemble them not in this particular.

Fifty grand for a paper bucket? Well it was all about context, you see.

Many times one is forced to descend to deep, dark regions, in order to find there the greatest, noblest and freest light.

All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt.

It is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful.

Really feminism is about being all that you are and not having to trade one thing for another on your way up.

I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down.

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.

I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.

Human beings are not creatures of logic; we are creatures of emotion. And we do not care what's true. We care how it feels.