Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

Come Sleep! Oh Sleep the certain knot of peace The baiting-place of wit the balm of woe The poor man's wealth the prisoner's release The indifferent judge between the high and low.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

We all feel inadequate very often. It’s only when it gets chronic that it is disturbing to one’s emotions and can get out of hand and make you pretty damn miserable.

Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.

Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.

I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.

I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action.

Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.

I try to do one to two days with no meat. I try to lessen my gluten. Those are things that I struggle with.

Just be nice to me while I am doing the scene; that is all. I don't want big cars, I don't want big hotel rooms.

Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide to action.