The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

If I still need someone to calm my anger down, then I surely need a scapegoat who enrages me.

Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability.

My point is, I don't see the need to eat animals. I love animals; besides the horrible stuff that's put in meat, I actually love cuddling with animals and petting them and stuff.

I try to do yoga once a week.

Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.

Pretty girl and all. Asking. Gotta love that. Stuff of heroes. Don't get the role too often.

Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.

If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans?

I'm not going to hold my breath because life goes on. Life is too short to sit around moaning about what could have been or what was.

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.