The wise man looks at death with honesty, dignity and calm, recognizing that the tragedy it brings is inherent in the great gift of life.

Humanism involves far more than the negation of supernaturalism. It requires an affirmative philosophy . . . translated into a life devoted to one's own improvement and the service of all mankind.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.

To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.

It seems with every match I win, I get better-looking to other people.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

In Paris you're always surrounded by French people.

I think it's amazing to have one writer write every episode of a series. It's very rare, I think. You get a voice that continues.

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

When success finds you, it's because you were looking for it.

A lot of newspapers say Terence Stamp is playing himself and we're as bored as he is.

Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.