The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domestic plants and animals but rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.

We can't reliably distinguish true memories from false memories.

My mom drove like Britney Spears with the steering wheel and me right here [in her lap]. I'm fine, I turned out okay.

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realising all the time that this is not a slice of life, this is openly a film.

On Mardi Gras, she got his soul back and freed him. (Wulf) Oh man, that sucks. Now he’s going to have to join Kyrian on the geriatric patrol. (Chris)

There's nobody quite as mean as people being mean for Jesus.

If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.