Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

The happy people are those who are producing something.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

Men, " she said rueful, "are the most absurd creatures on this green earth." "But there are camels, " Gabriel pointed out. "Believe me, " she answered. "I've taken camels into consideration.

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience.

I don't give a damn about Hollywood.

I work out two, two and a half hours a day. For 'Immortals,' it was body-weight stuff: crunches, pullups, and martial arts-based cardio.

In my breaking through...I transcend all creatures and am neither God nor creature...for in this breaking through I find that God and I are both the same.

I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in the full-figure. I want to abstract forms.

Everything I did with my life I did so that I could give my parents everything they didn't have because of me.

You have a pre-conceived notion of what you want the scene to be, but once you get there, that goes out the window and it turns out to be a way that you never imagined.

Only once you destroy who you think you are can you embrace who you truly are