But time given to wishing for what can't be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste we shall be accountable.

To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.

Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.

It is interesting to note that everyone has a different take on the world, a different opinion, and given the same inputs have completely different outputs.

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

The body, then, has a mind of its own. It must follow, then, that the Mind has a body of its own, even if it’s like nothing that we can see around us, or have ever seen.

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.

Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

An unjust punishment is never forgotten.

A word of advice. If, as a young man, student, you are tormented by a desire for women, it is best to get out into the fresh air as much as possible.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

We all fail at certain points in our lives, but if your journey stops at failure, it will become your destination.

Getting out of tight jams was his specialty.

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

Obviously, it has taken time to work with the players around me and with so many new faces coming in the summer, in a way it's been more difficult.

If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.

If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it.

What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.

Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth.

But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.

Up above Aliens hover Making home movies For the folks back home Of all these weird creatures Who lock up their spirits Drill holes in themselves And live for their secrets.