Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Be careful who you make memories with. Those things can last a lifetime.

Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.

The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.

I always felt like I sucked at everything, that I could never find the thing that I liked. I auditioned and I probably sucked, but I had decided 100 percent that this is what I wanted to do.

So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.

The more I read, the more I learn, the more I discover that I know nothing.

I have friends struggling with autism, juvenile diabetes.

Penises are literally all around me all the time, and have a lot of influence on the world, on my world.

Sexual intercourse vests no property rights.

It sounds corny to say, but the theater is sacred; something transcendent can occur, and when it does, everyone grows. It's a true communion.