Art for art's sake.

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

You can only govern men by serving them.

The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all.

Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances, natural justice demands.

We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright.

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.

I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo.

I'll walk the plank and I'll jump with a smile, cause if I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style.

The early years were more about learning than about acting. I had to carry on my father's work, which was a big challenge.

Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.

I always have a camera now that I've got a kid, but I don't think I've got one picture of anyone other than my daughter.

When you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself in all ways that are necessary.

You can't always say what you'd like to say.

The Art of War is self-explanatory

A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.