Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

One dupe is as impossible as one twin.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Don't live your life like a movie. Always thinkin you could've been something. Don't live your life for me or for anyone. You live your life as if you're one.

We cannot do everything, but we can all do something.

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. I am Jack's Broken Heart.

I suspect people are going to vote for Max Burns because they know him as local boy who's got - share their values.

I would never judge anyone for going anywhere for money.

The rational is apprehended through the intellect, however, the intellect is not found in the region of the rational; the intellect is as the eye and the rational as the colors.

If you take risks, you may fail; but if you don't take risks, you will surely fail

I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.

I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats; If it be man's work, I'll do't.