I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just ...
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the Hand of Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal pow...
I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering, it is increasingly difficult to find those elements in nature, because it's nature I believe in rather than some spiritual thing.
I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
Some women are naturally thin. But there needs to be an appreciation for a variety of types of women because we don't all come in one package. We're not pre-destined to all be a size six. It's very hard for a large group of women to maintain a thinne...
When a hundred men call a wise man a fool, then he becomes a fool.
After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
What a fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning.
A satisfied man is happy even if he is poor; a dissatisfied man is sad even if he is rich.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
A young woman with an old man is really someone else's woman.
When the poor man sets a trap only his dog gets caught.
When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.
The old man looks death in the eye, the young man keeps him behind his back.
It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
The praise of a thousand jesters counts for nothing against the reprimand of one wise man.
You have to put a young girl onto an old man.
To quarrel with a man of good speech is better than to converse with a man who does not speak well.
A young woman is to an old man the horse that he rides to hell.
A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.
