The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

There is no end to the deceits of the past.

Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message.

There is too little courtship in the world.

Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.

Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality.

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.

things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.

This world's a bubble.

Beware of those who attribute petty instructions to God.

If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes.

Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks.

And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.

I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.

Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.