Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.

Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.

All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

I am possessed by love and have no options.

Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.

Lead diligently.

Perhaps you should put your head down.” I knew this was the thing to do, although I’ve never fainted and I don’t intend to.

Kant says that we may regard ourselves as legislator of the moral law, and consider ourselves as its author, but not that we are legislators or authors of the law.

Wherever you put the mind, the body will follow.

I love the creation of these things — I love the sculpting, I love the coloring. Half the joy is fabricating the world, the creatures.

And I always tried to be not a star. To be someone who people like to talk to.

Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk.

The only security of all is in a free press.

All of these red carpet events may seem natural for you journalists, but it doesn't feel natural for actors.