“Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.”

To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

The motive power of democracy is love.

It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.

The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.

Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.

Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.

Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.

Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.

Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.

No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

My biggest regret is that I’ve assisted the media in making me into a cartoon character. I don’t regret what has happened to me, but I regret the way I have dealt with it.

All of us are products of our childhood.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

I am not just sitting and reading everything because honestly sometimes the scripts that appeal to me are projects that are not good projects, but I just really like the script or the characters.

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad.