Fear invites aggression - do not show it to a predator.

The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.

Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.

It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question.

How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.

Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones.

The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.

Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.

An educated mind is a questioning mind. Or is it?

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

It is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life.

I call myself a character actor all my life. I've done a certain amount as a leading man, but character actors in my estimation - it's a lost art these days.

What is it at which all true artists are aiming? It is life, it is reality.

When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them.

We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.

Genuine and innocent wit is surely the very flavor of the mind.

Faith is the eternal elixir. It gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought.