The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

Friends are God's apology for relations.

Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.

It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.

Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.

A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string.

The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing.

An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.

If we accept imperfect food, we can indeed change the world for the better.

I'm always scared when I fight. But that fear is what keeps me more alert and more focused. It's good to have fear.

I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living

I don’t know the science behind climate change.

If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!

In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.