Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.
There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.
Every man has within himself the entire human condition
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Only the fools are certain and assured.
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
I always wanted to play with the sound, but I always wanted to do it in a respectful way, because I never lived in New York and I don't have a real connection to that scene.
You a star in my eyes. You and all them white girls, Party of Five
In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology. . . But the counter-irritant usually proves a greater plague than the initial irritant, like a drug habit.
I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.