...it is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.

Life is divided into three parts: what was, what is and what shall be. Of these three periods, the present is short, the future is doubtful and the past alone is certain.

It takes all of our life to learn how to live, and – something that may surprise you more – it takes just as long to learn how to die.

Sorrowers tend to avoid what they are most fond of and try to give vent to their grief.

Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds!

Only a mind that is deeply stirred can utter something noble and beyond the power of others.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because they alone give promise of final success.

If you're saving, you're succeeding

I'm definitely drawn to things that are new, so something specifically for me would have been fun.

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

I prayed. God became more than faith. He became knowledge, and I appealed to him. Then I became ashamed. Why hadn't I embraced him so thoroughly before?

if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.

I don't want to be Kato, the trial guy. It's like everything I do is under a microscope.

My whole mantra is, "Go big or go home." I don't want to just play a guy who dresses up. I want to play the person who threw down.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.