Honesty is the cornerstone of character.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

The rush I got from crime was better than that of glue, drink or hash. I loved playing cat and mouse with the local coppers. He Who Dares Wins, the SAS motto, was very applicable to my life then.

I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.

I love Toronto's long autumns, warm with windy swirls of golden spores, redolent with giant, sun-roasted leaves flapping up and down the streets, and horrible winter always seeming far, far off!

Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.

Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me — two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they were, but they certainly didn't give a damn what other people thought.

We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions.

America is always stronger when we do things together.