Of all the people in the world those who want the most are those who have the most.

For adventure is not outside a man it is within.

Contentment and indeed usefulness comes as the infallible result of great acceptances great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves.

What is more enthralling to the human mind than this splendid boundless colored mutability!-Life in the making?

We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.

No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each.

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.

Happiness ... loves to see men work. She loves sweat weariness self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces but lurking in cornfields and factories and hovering over littered desks.

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

A life uncommanded now is uncom-manded a life unenjoyed now is unenjoyed a life not lived wisely now is not lived wisely.

You need to relax and be yourself, not whoever it is you’re trying to be in your mad little head. I bloody don’t, though. I’m me and I’m good at it.

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

Mystery is not always about travelling to new places, it is about looking with new eyes.

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.

Hate engenders loneliness and despair

It's nice when you've done enough movies that you can do your own anthology.

Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

Metaphors convince at once or not at all.

Part of acting is having the security to turn yourself loose and let yourself go in order to reach whatever depths a character has. If your guts aren't hanging out there, you don't offer anything.