I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.

A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up.

It's amazing how right you can be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.

I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.

That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.

What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.

I’ve never wanted to meet anyone I’ve been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people.

... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

The world is wide, wide, wide, and I am young, young, young, and we’re all going to live forever!

Positive emotions like compassion and loving kindness engender in us a deep sense of peace and serenity, and benefits others as well.

Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.

...the real is coherent and probable because it is real, not real because it is coherent...

Self leadership requires us to lead and motivate ourselves. But it looks a heck of a lot like schizophrenia during a ropes course.

The two women looked at me as if I were the Messiah returning with their personal salvations sealed in separate envelopes.

History is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Patience is a virtue, and Americans have it in short supply.

I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life.

I've been 6'4'' since I was 12. Goofy is somewhere in the lexicon.