We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat or in film's case 'run on' manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

Without justice and love, peace will always be a great illusion.

To know a little less and to understand a little more: that, it seems to me, is our greatest need.

Future is about creating value. If we have tools to empower each other, more possibility is reality.

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.

What we are left with is an overmanipulated economy that can't function normally.

I was called Matt Dillon's brother my whole career basically until 'Entourage' broke me free of that and now people call me Johnny Drama instead.

The Bible teaches us that God does not cause pain, but that He uses pain and evil to advance His cause and shape His servants.

No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.

Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.