The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

The motive power of democracy is love

Live a Nomad Family lifestyle to broaden your horizon and create a more suitable lifestyle for your family

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.

Artillery adds dignity, to what would otherwise be an ugly brawl.

I had my own battle tactics.

Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.

The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.

Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable.

I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all.

I once knew a man out of courtesy help a lame dog over a stile, and he for requital bit his fingers.