A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

We do the right things at the wrong time because we think we are doing the right thing and the wrong things at the wrong times simply because we want to.

I feel a thrill of excitement at this first tiny glimpse of self-revelation, of intimacy.

The great mountain must collapse, the mighty beam must break and the wise man wither like a plant.

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on Lost.

You have to treat every hour of television you're given like a $100 million movie, and with 'A.D.,' we stepped it up even a stage further.

I do not care to be esthetically tickled in a fancy theater surrounded by an audience drenched in the confident perfume of culture. I can't afford it.

We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.

It is possible to be clean in a dirty world.