“The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.”

Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.

The worst time is always the present.

We are never content with our lot.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.

You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.

Gentleness succeeds better than violence.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

By the work one knows the workman.

We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.

O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

People who make no noise are dangerous.

Sensible people find nothing useless.

It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.

Once you have people around you who don’t question you, you’re in a dangerous place.

The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he’ll fight and die for it.

Creativity happens where it’s dangerous and scary: where you’re not comfortable.

It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.

Assumptions are dangerous things.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Particularly in the final stages I always find that I’m rushed. It’s dangerous when you’re rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting.

Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.