The universe... is a machine for the making of gods.

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

We make art so that we can feel life. We do science to understand it.

Ignorance breeds success.

Life is BETTER when you're SMILING!

Life is very tough sometimes, but never tougher than a highly determined positive mind.

Long hair is a security blanket for me. I cut it short a few years ago and I really never want to do that again. When I do cut it, I cut it myself.

The actor is an athlete of the heart.

A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.

Forgiving makes me feel free and light. I forgive everyone, including myself

Love is the door to eternity.

I belong to no organized political body. I am a Democrat.