What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Go on thinking that you don’t need to be read and you’ll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won’t feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

The universe is not indifferent to our existence – it depends on it.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Confine yourself to the present.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

I don’t go around thinking I’m Ray Bradbury all the time.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Songs don’t have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I’ve done is about alienation… about where you fit in society.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Knowledge is true opinion.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

A useless life is an early death.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.