In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

The motive power of democracy is love

Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.

I've learned... That money doesn't buy class.

Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt - an image of the world in which men can again believe.

I was an impostor, the worthy associate of a brigand, &c., &c., and all this for an atom of chlorine put in the place of an atom of hydrogen, for the simple correction of a chemical formula!

So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all ablaze.

When you always want the next thing, every human being becomes a means to an end.

All you have is your fire And the place you need to reach Don't you ever tame your demons But always keep them on a leash

With any independent film, it's all about getting everyone's schedules in line and everything together at the same time and just doing the best you can do when that happens - if it happens.

Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable.

I felt like I was watching the transfomation of two people: Victor to wolf, and Cole to someone else. I was the only one here, staying the same.

Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.