How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

Only give a woman love, and there is nothing she will not venture, suffer, and do.

Actions become very effective when they meet the habit of consistency.

God never gives you more than you can handle. It's your choice on how you deal with what he gives you. You can either grow from it, or you can lie down and give up.

When you let go, you lose pain and gain insight.

You have to identify what you care about and why you care about it. It has to be personal. It has to be something that fires you up or means something to you, or it's not going to drive you.

Sometimes I just want to lick David Lee Roth in the nuts

Harmony is next to Godliness

I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder.