Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, read more

Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

No pressure, no diamonds.

No pressure, no diamonds.

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is read more

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but read more

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.