We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

The motive power of democracy is love

Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.

When good Americans die, they go to Paris, ' the ghost said, after taking a drag on a small cigarette.But you’re not dead. I suppose the question must be, are you good?

I'm never getting a tattoo. My secrets are etched safely on the inside and I intend to keep them there.

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

A man's just gotta know his limits

There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.

You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.

Political suicide can end a career.

You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of philosophical about that.

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.