Thoughts are ghosts of emotions.

Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations.

Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.

Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons.

Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.

Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them.

Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.

Everyone is born with a different mind and the same heart.

Truth is what reconciles thought and experience.

The biggest challenge for human mind is human mind.

A mind can be empty of thoughts but a heart cannot be void of feelings.

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

It's not a struggle to be on a diet. You feel lighter, and your spirit is lighter, too. But I love chocolate, and I allow myself to have chocolate. That doesn't go against a diet for me.

Suckers have no business with money anyway.

Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.

All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.

You take for granted the details that make something look real. It can still look fabulous, but if you add a light switch, a vent, or the notion of air conditioning, it can look real.

Ah! the year is slowly dying, And the wind in tree-top sighing, Chant his requiem. Thick and fast the leaves are falling, High in air wild birds are calling, Nature's solemn hymn.

Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started.

Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.

I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.