The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

All Socialism involves slavery.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

My love is meatloaf flavored. I just wish my meatloaf was also meatloaf flavored.

Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear the same self-doubts ... and I have only one source on which I can draw because it comes from within me.

Glee! The great storm is over!

All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable

I don't believe that jazz will ever really die. It's a nice way to express yourself.

It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lectures—but far and wide.

I learned that nobody's better than you to get your business off the ground. The experience you get is priceless.

Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

I wasn't nervous at all. I applied the same amount of efforts to the love scenes as I did to the skating and the acting and everything else.