We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.
Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.
The majority of men. . . are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and. . . are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
I believe in the kindness of others, and that I must love them without fear.
You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.
I think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are.
Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.