As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

I am a spiritual person living in a human body, not a human body with a spirit.

It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate whose faithful work will answer for him.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

I think my dad is highly gender-neutral. If he doesn't like someone, he'll articulate that, and I think it's also part of what resonates about him. He'll say what he's thinking.

The flag is a symbol of the fact that man is still a herd animal.

I think I was a militant smoker, and I felt hemmed in by a wall of political correctness and I think I purposely and militantly put the smoking scenes in the movies.

We're Mexican not Mexican't!

Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet?

People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.