Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

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.

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.

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

Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.

In every job relationship or life situation there is inevitably some turbulence. Learn to laugh at it. It is part of what you do and who you are

I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think.

I was paying attention to where Steven Soderbergh had the camera and his shots. I was blown away.

I don't want to play high schoolers anymore. I guess I don't feel that way. I just want to play characters who are really good.

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.

While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation.

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.

On a daily basis, jeans and t-shirt is still sexy, but it doesn't look like you're trying too hard.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.