Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

To be adult is to be alone.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

You don't want your kids to hear songs of this nature... But you take em to the movies to watch Schwarzenegger!

I feel no grief for being called something which I am not; in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good back rub

As my sister got older, I saw how excited she got when she got to do all of that stuff. I was always like, "One day, I'll get to do older parts." I thought that was cool.

When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for the desired object.

You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.

If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein].

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

I'd like to keep singing - whether that's small or big. To stop singing for a living would break my heart.

Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe.