Why should I deem myself to be a chisel when I could be the artist?

Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

The will of man is his happiness.

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.

There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

The best art always comes unbidden.

You can't be gone. I need you here, with me. What am I going to do without you?

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

No historian should be trusted implicitly.

If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he plagiarized that from an Italian play.

I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.

That movie [War for the Planet of the Apes] is incredibly engaging; it's what drives the emotion of all these films. So tonight, we're going to show a long sequence that's actually going to be.

We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.