Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good.
No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.
Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.
The people who, in order to enjoy the liberty which suites them, resort to the representative system, must exercise an active and constant surveillance over their representatives, and reserve for themselves. . . the right to discard them if they betray their trust, and to revoke the powers which them might have abused.
The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart that loved him.
There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain of them all the more power. . . on the contrary, they must be given less power.
Woe to the man who in the first moments of a love-affair does not believe that it will last forever! Woe to him who even in the arms of some mistress who has just yielded to him maintains an awareness of trouble to come and foresees that he may later tear himself away!
They tell you to be careful because maybe you don't want to meet your heroes. I've met pretty much every one, and I've never been let down.
I'm convinced after spending three weeks in China and Tibet, unless the United States gets its act together, our grandchildren will be living in a world dominated by the People's Republic. China is simply inexorable in its pursuit of wealth, growth and power. It cares little about human rights, democracy, labor protections, fair trade rules or the environment. It is relentless in advancing its national interests.
I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all.
I don't think it necessarily makes me want to go back to my 20s, but what I love about playing any type of character is the escapism.