A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
It seems we're always in transition and that it's more about trends than it is about what's meaningful.
It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.
You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the vantage point of quarter century in time? We won the war in a military sense; but in a broader sense, it seems to me we lost it, for our Western civilization is less respected and secure than it was before.
Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.
I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.
The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process to product, and lacks individuality and openness. It's not that art should be seen only in rutty bombed-out environments, but it should seem alive.
Even more amazing than modern technology is our opportunity to access information directly from Heaven, without hardware, software, or monthly service fees.
I've had to calm down, I have a kid! It is amazing. It's the best thing ever. Nothing better than it.
One thing led to another and I didn't have to take tickets any more because I now worked for Mr. Rogers. He said if I was going to take care of his horses than I'd better learn how to ride. He was very kind to me.
The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.
It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running but I'm a much better athlete than two years ago.
I interviewed dozens and dozens of African women who had endured more hardship and trauma than most Westerners even read about, and they ploughed on. I often openly cried during interviews, unable to process this violence and hatred towards women I was witnessing.
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.
I wouldn't want to play anything bigger than 10,000 again. I think it's too much, and you lose touch.
I'm really interested in passivity as a type of action - sort of allowing the situation to change you, choosing to give in being an act of agency rather than an act of submission.
I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.
Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.
I feel lucky that I found my talent, not unlucky that I was born with a disability. When I'm on a horse, I'm more worried about what the riding hat is doing to my hair than what my bent legs and arms are doing. What riding has given me is respect.
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.
Default choices often remain unchanged for no reason other than being the default, either because of this lack of information or humans' status quo bias.
I think that over the last few decades, we have seen better economic outcomes than in the past.
Examining other people's motivations, other people's language and other people's way of interacting is much more fascinating to me than spending a lot of time worrying about my own. I've said, 'What other people think of me is none of my business.'
The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.
Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song.
My purpose is far greater than my pain.
In TV, it is important to get everything on film as fast as possible. You rehearse every day of the week, and each day, the performance may be changed. The process is more result-oriented than in the movies. It's more about working quickly.
It's the polar opposite of most people, but I absolutely hate carrying a ton of stuff onto a plane. I check in all my luggage and literally go through security with nothing other than my coat, in which I have my iPhone and iPad.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
