“You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.

It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

I’m just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you’re not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor’s world, it can eat you alive.

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.

There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.

If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.

The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.