“If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.”

We discover ourselves through others.

We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

A man’s hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

I live in my deepest hell and from there I cannot fall any further.

In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.

The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.

Nothing is possible without love, For love puts one in a mood to risk everything.

Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide.

Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality.

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people’s lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice.

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

The best part of touring, still, is touching people’s hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.

If you’re my woman, you’re somebody I give emotions to that I don’t give to nobody else. You’re my safe space. I don’t want my safe space to be compromised.

Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.