For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

What right do we have to dream of another world, if we can't take care of this one.

A man is talking on the telephone behind a glass partition

We talk so much yet we have nothing to say.

I agree with [Donald] Trump: These trade agreements have not been good deals for America, and they need to be fixed.

Whether it's good for anything or not, cool or totally uncool, in the final analysis what's most important is what you can't see but can feel in your heart.

One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.

There's no rules. Show me the rule book.

It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made.

I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.