I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

Respectable people... What bastards!

I love people, that´s why I win. If you love people, you win.

If you fail at something, it means you have not mastered the art. With persistence practice, you will be master and eventually succeed.

Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance, " said William Shakespeare. How would he know, he knew everything?

No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith.

I was looking for acceptance, love, and that's why I became present in everything I did.

May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions.

No matter how diligent or persistent you have been, there is not one of us who made this journey toward success by ourselves.

I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I'd gone to California.

She dreams of him that has forgot her love; You dote on her that cares not for your love. 'Tis pity love should be so contrary; And thinking of it makes me cry 'alas!