Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there.

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

I love New York City for its energy. Pebble Beach, Carmel Beach and that all area, for its completely laid back energy. Paris for the charm, shopping and the glamour.

A lot of guys are free swingers, but I'm up there looking for a specific pitch.

Let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the information of others.

I just see a huge train wreck coming down. You and I have discussed this many times, and I don't see any results yet.

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.

The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.

And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze About a star of deathless and painless peace But no astronomer can find where it is.

Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin.