I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

Those who are men in God’s eyes would live and die for the promotion of equity, fairness and impartiality

I only want one thing of men, and that is, that they should leave me alone.

Why is Scottie Pippen taking a charge? Taking a charge is for people with no game!

It's the music. Your heart is in your ears.

There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves.

Why do humans make art? It's how we evolved.

Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.

The acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys.

We live in an age of mediocrity. Stars today are not the same stature as Bogie [Humphrey Bogart], James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart [James Stewart].

People read fiction... to learn something about how to live their lives.