To enter into the hearts of men belongs to him who can explore the human heart.

That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted.

What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another.

It is not for human judgment to dive into the heart of man, to know whether his intentions are good or evil.

We must judge of a man's motives from his overt acts.

I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come to few and the example to many.

The joy of reading is grace of renewal of mind.

Snobs talk as if they had begotten their ancestors.

A little bit of laughter and an occasional adult beverage never hurt nobody.

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.

All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is

You can be sure that most of the high positions in the country would be empty if one were admitted only after an examination as severe as the one we painters must pass.

When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.

You can never please everyone, and I think it's best not to.

I came out of independent film, that's my roots. I used my independent film as a laboratory, and used what I could discover in that laboratory.

We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.