Be faithful that your authentic power is all you need to truly share your light with the world.
It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.
In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.
All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.
It is very clear that one way to challenge insults is to submit to them.
Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.
If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.
There are no utopia jobs on this earth,. . There's nobody out there that can say, 'I've got the ideal job and there are no problems. ' If your self worth is based on what other people think of you, you're in trouble. My self worth is not based on them. My self worth is based on my faith, how I treat others, what I'm doing right for this program and these kids and this coaching staff. Other than that, I understand you're not going to please everybody.
There's a freedom there and an understanding of my career and the things I've done. I'm seen here as primarily a comic actor, which is OK, but I can go to New York and I do something that's very emotional. It would be lovely at some point to do something like that on film.
The invocation of science, of its ground rules, of the exclusive validity of the methods that science has now completely become, now constitutes a surveillance authority punishing free, uncoddled, undisciplined thought and tolerating nothing of mental activity other than what has been methodologically sanctioned. Science and scholarship, the medium of autonomy, has degenerated into an instrument of heteronomy.
I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all.