Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, ‚tough this and tough that.‘ Then there is this business about ‚gooey.‘ The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

The little man is still a man.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It’s a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

I have a heart of gold, but I’m really a marshmallow in my heart.

The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

What people see on court is another side of me; it’s not me.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

I don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

I’m a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don’t like multitasking. When I’m doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

I’m not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I’m seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

The darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.