Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks.

Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.

Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through the mountains confronting the greatest dangers with the biggest of cares. What we call art here, is the application of a knowledge to an action.

The door to the invisible must be visible.

A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

You build a thing of beauty, and then the peasants storm the castle, hooting and chanting and calling you a heretic.

If the truth was equal to the lie, and our love was equal to our hatred, we would become absolutely nil persons.

All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.

I just adore being on set. I adore storytelling. I can be on a set 70 hours a week and on those weekends, I'll still want to watch movies.

The World is not ours to keep. We hold it in trust for future generations.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Preparing to lose is easy, but losing is hard. Preparing to win is hard, but winning is then easy.

I can have a thousand people say the nicest things, but I'll always notice the one person who doesn't get me.