One truly understands only what one can create.

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.

Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.

Understanding arises through making

Never Kill your What Ifs, But first be Grateful for What Is.

We nurture our own being by respecting all people and consciously working to mitigate the pain of the world.

Some of the most miserable people I have ever met have been people who are very popular with the public, but down inside are empty and miserable.

Runners like to train 100 miles per week because it's a round number. But I think 88 is a lot rounder.

As an actor, those are the roles that you long for. You always want something that's going to kick your last role out of the water and put you off on a new path.

The full ashtanga system practiced with devotion leads to freedom within one's heart.

Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through playing people who are absolutely nothing like me.

I'm very wary of large groups of people getting together and trying to believe the same thing. It never seems to end well, whether it's political or religious or whatever.

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society

A parent may be without a job, but no child should be without a doctor.