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

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

All passions exaggerate it is because they do that they are passions.

The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

Success produces success just as money produces money.

If you must love your neighbor as yourself it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

Try not to seek after the trueOnly cease to cherish opinions. (172)

To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

I could live a better life if I had a better mind and a better body

You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you don't get anything.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

Love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart.

I'm focusing on my efforts behind the camera. I'm doing some producing and directing so that I can make projects for all of the amazing, talented actors and crew that I know.

Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.