The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his ... genius.

The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.

Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.

It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

But the higher a man mounts, the greater may be his fall; all genius is a conquering of chaos, mystery.

An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.

I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you.

The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

Now I know that I don't have to go after every batter with the hardest pitch I've got.

Honestly, I just want to keep people awake. Or at least give you one joke to go to bed with.

I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.

When the ancients said a work well begun was half done, they meant to impress the importance of always endeavoring to make a good beginning.

It is very painful to love someone and believe you cannot be with them.

The variety of opinions leads to questions. Questions lead to truth.