I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.

It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.

To be an actor or actress, you have to feel on a deep level and tap into emotions that you've never felt before. You're imagining how something would feel. You have to use your imagination so much.

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

I believe engineers will save the world.

I don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.

They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.

Who in the world wants to run a country where the new norm is one where there are no jobs?

The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.

Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.