Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

You can still live in the realities of your positive desires.

I want to gossip about forever / against the part of your back that / is mine.

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

I love roles where I have to transform myself.

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change.

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature

You believe that all humanity came from Adam and Eve, and humans have not evolved at all since. So tell me; between the two of them, which was black, which was white, and which was Asian?

It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.