Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

The motive power of democracy is love

Passion is the 'not-so-secret' ingredient to success. Passion drives hard work, persistence and creativity.

I would hear him screaming, I would watch him bleed, I would tear his flesh piece by piece before I would worry about Æthelflaed. This was family. This was revenge.

She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath.

I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges.

PMP was in an almost diametrically opposite situation to Fairfax.

Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.

Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with somebody else?

The end doesn't justify the means.

I find that with some girls, the words work and education have gotten a bad rap.