Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.
Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.
The bars on our cage are of our own making.
Pity, unlike hate, can be boxed and put away.
But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded.
Love is best a phantom than reality, better in the chase than caught.
But how right is it to kill a man for something that is in his soul?
The people that are around me that give me ideas that I pass along or we try, the one thing I never do, I never give credit to anybody but myself. So I take all of the ideas. So everybody thinks that all of the ideas are mine.
The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe.
I no longer think in terms of, Ooh, this is a great role and what is it going to do for - actually, I've never really thought about what something is going to do for my career.
Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.