I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

I would much rather lose people than compromise my beliefs & values to please them.

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

When you are lying drunk at the airport you're Irish. When you win an Oscar you're British.

The Elephant Man would never have gotten up and gone, ‘Oh, God. Look at me hair today.’

Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus.

There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.

The Holocaust industry has always been bankrupt. What remains is to openly declare it so. The time is long past to put it out of business.

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

The most challenging scene for me was the spider scene, because I don't like spiders in real life. Even rubber ones I get really scared of.

Few things loves better Than to abhor himself.