Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

We live in relative world with relatives.

Writers don't kill characters. Characters kill characters.

I was like, 'Dude, make me look bad. Please. I want to look ugly. I want to wear orange pants.

How can it be said that the weakness of the human will is aided so as to enable it to aspire effectually to the choice of good, when the fact is, that it must be wholly transformed and renewed?

It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV.

An artist is someone who feels the vibrations of the world and tries to transcribe them through his medium.

I don't think the concept of "directing actors" exists in the sense that if you get what you order from an actor you'll always get bad acting. Every actor is scared just like a regular person.

I've always kind of done exactly what my instincts said.

There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.

What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river.