An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

One dupe is as impossible as one twin.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

I will not interfere with a male dragon while he is rutting.

I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence.

The love of freedom is actually an aberration.

I've got a hectic schedule, but I wouldn't have my life any other way.

I would recommend anybody who gets a chance to see short track skating, make it a point to go out there when Apolo is skating because you won't see anybody better.

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

Try your best not to get distracted from your goal. Let everything you do be your way of getting closer to your enlightenment; never take a vacation from spiritual practice.

The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also - even more, perhaps - the ruthless dedication to annihilating those who made them victims.

The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.

I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things.