You pays your money and you takes your choice.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

No social stability without individual stability.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Life is too short as we all know it to be. So why dare to spend it trying to live up to other people's worldly expectations of you?

The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened with convictions.

Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.

I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that sort of stuff. Casting. On the set there's not a lot for me to do.

No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

I'll have a stamp on me forever. There will always be questions. I brought new fans to the Orioles' organization, and that's good.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

The future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to live and hope.

Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners

I’ve always been an entrepreneur, but it’s never been about the money. I like a challenge, the harder the better.