'The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense.

"The whole world loves a lover" is an interesting theory but a very bad legal defense.

First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.

We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that we can feel more divine and worthy than the worldly.

Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?

I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than make the kind of 'entertaining' film that everyone feels ambivalent about.

Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on.

I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.

Strive always to improve the instrument.

In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.

What's female beauty, but an air divine, thro' which the mind's all gentle graces shine? They, like the sun, irradiate all between; the body charms because the soul is seen.

Art is there for nourishment, not explication.