Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. – William Channing
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive. – Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens), Following the Equator: A Journey Around the Worl
I hadnt made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood theres a sort of man and boys situation. Youre a man, you make $80 million movies! As if its harder to make an $80 million movie. Well, I guess businesswise it is because you have more executives to argue with. – Gus Van Sant