We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.

He thought how sad it was to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of violets picked for him.

Though you have changed a thousand times, He has not changed once.

A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.

To go straight to the deepest depth, I went for Hegel; what unclear thoughtless flow of words I was to find there! My unlucky star led me from Hegel to Schopenhauer … Even in Kant there were many things that I could grasp so little that given his general acuity of mind I almost suspected that he was pulling the reader’s leg or was even an imposter.