Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

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

There are only two classes of people. "The Clear", powered by their confusion and "The Confused", powered by their clarity

Work keeps us occupied. Faith keeps us fortified. Hope keeps us gratified. Love keeps us satisfied.

I never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world.

Trust in Allah but tie your camel first.

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

I must have Haley Joel Osment as my agent, because he only sees dead parts

I went to a party at the Playboy Mansion once. For a Halloween Party. And everyone wasn't in costume, or if they were they were little bunnies or something, and I went as Michael Jackson.

I'm pretty much a vegetarian, but I do eat fish and sometimes chicken

And I think because there is an essence of me that cares about other people and what other people think then that then makes me seem very sweet and polite.

If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.