Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one's watching. Love as if it's all you know. Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.

Remember: Life is short, break the rules

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.

The way a crowShook down on meThe dust of snowFrom a hemlock treeHas given my heartA change of moodAnd saved some partOf a day I had rued.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

The flag of our Union forever!

Great liars are also great magicians.

What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.

I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead of the government.

To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that cold be taken of the world: It offers the reader a frame.

All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess.

I think you should live your moral values, but the last thing, the very last thing, the government should do is have laws that would punish women who make reproductive choices.

Gratitude, in itself, is heaven.