Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

When anyone tells me I can’t do anything, I’m just not listening any more.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

I like stories with lots of psychology.

I love doing comedy. One of my favorite things in the world is to do Parks and Recreation; a big fun character.

One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy.

In my work theres always been a duality between sticking to reality and trying to stage things.

The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of United Nations Mission in Kosovo.

Growing up, my sisters were both into dancing, so I went to a lot of dance recitals, mostly because there were always pretty girls in leotards.

It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.