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

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.

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

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.

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 best evidence of unsophisticated ides is the behavior that follows.

Love has the power to...cure, to heal, to calm, to change and to unite. Use this power often.

A rabbi told me that when you have two problems - one near, one not so near - concentrate on the immediate one.

I love the idea of getting to play different characters and tell some stories. When you're passionate about a project, it's nice to get the part.

There is no honest woman with an uncorrupted heart whom a man is not sure of conquering by dint of gratitude. It is one of the surest and shortest means.

Everything, every part that you approach has to be somehow rooted in yourself. You have to somehow root everything so that it's not just words coming out of you.

Be patient and live with the knowledge that all you are searching for is certain to come if you prepare for it and expect it.

My son, forbearance is a great virtue; there's no other like it.

A true teacher doesn't teach you to think like him, but to think without him.

I would not like it thought that I do not buy my own paperclips, sir. I enjoy owning my own paperclips. It means they are mine.