It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.

It is that we are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.

Accepting defeat is not wisdom.

You're an addiction...my obsession...

True friendship is self-love at second hand.

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

I've never worked with an acting coach, but my parents had acting classes and I grew up around them my whole life just because I didn't have a babysitter.

I'm the man of a million names.

I grew up in North Carolina, and I grew up on wrestling.

Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.

Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.