Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a solid grasp and a perfect command.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.

One tech-related concern with religion is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop to the accelerating rich-poor gap, as the disenfranchised opt out of modernity.

What you've done is done. You've got a goal you never reach, and it's always farther away. It keeps you walking. I don't want to sit down.

If everyone is getting money, no one is getting disrespected, and no one is getting hurt, no one should be arguing.

Making decisions is probably the most important thing people ever do. Nothing happens until someone makes a decision.

Reading scripts is actually quite a relaxing part of the job. Strangely relaxing. This is a whole different ball game.

I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.

When you come close to selling out, reconsider.

Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions.

The winds of God's grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.