Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

We are often harsher judges than God himself.

In the present every day is a miracle.

In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.

Improvisation, for me, is when the cameras start rolling, we don't know where we're going and let's just waste people's time and money.

Every religion contains, in varying degrees, elements of the soft and the hard. For the sake of world peace, dialogue within religions and among them must strengthen the softer aspects.

I love art. It really changes my mood and wakes me up.

I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you.

To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!

The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive.