You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

One of the things I enjoy about being young is learning from my elders without them giving direct advise.

The grace for each day is sufficient to accomplish a daily task.

Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.

Happiness is absolutely a feeling and a state of well-being, but the key to happiness is understanding that it is created through action.

All so convinced that you're following your heart cause your mind don't control what it does sometimes.

Directing is something that I'd been wanting and hoping to do, as I've grown into myself.

Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age.

Prayers and provender hinder no journey. [Prayers and provender hinder no man's journey.]

I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people.

You never think of films being really creepy that you're in because you just remember the funny stuff.