Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

All progress is experimental.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Awaken the spirit of divinity in you.

You can't reach a mountain top without friends to help you get there.

What would Jesus do? One thing is obvious, if there is one thing Jesus would NOT do - is to behave like his followers.

It's ironic, since they're supposed to be immortal, but vampires are kind of like small businesses: half of them go down within their first year

The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.

We start eating, watch television, surf the Internet, or go shopping and buy something. That gives us a rush of feeling, some adrenaline and excitement.

I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.

Let us remember, so far as we can, that every unpleasant thought is a bad thing literally put into the body.

At some point I will try balut. I will make sure that I will film it

I want to become actor not because I want money and become more famous. No I don't want that. It is not that l want stardom, I want to contribute to good cinema.