philosophy

"I do not see why I should e'er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed…"

"You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book (Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you take a trip, or you talk with Richard, and you discover…"

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source, it dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds, it dies of weariness, of withe…"

"Love the battle between chaos and imagination. Remember: Acting is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances. Remember: Acting is the way to live the greatest number of lives. Remember: Acting is t…"

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge — That myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts —That hope always triumphs over experience — That laug…"

"One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain."

"From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . …"

"If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching."

"For there is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect."

"During the last few years, we've ventured into a lot of different fields. We've had the opportunity to meet and work with a lot of wonderful people. Our only hope is we never lose sight of one thing: …"

""Can you tell me if they'll ever find her?" Mom asks. "Is she out there?"Then Sylvia says: "I hate this when they're in water. I just hate this. She's not alive, honey."What? Why did she say that?Mom'…"

"Let's look back to just one particularly cruel hoax perpetrated by this woman Browne. Years ago on Montel Williams' show, she spoke to the grandmother of a local missing child, a six-year-old named Op…"

""There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.""

""Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's e…"

""It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.""

""To thine on self be true." "Do that, and you’ll have no regrets.""

"…I was doing a promotion for Sounder. And after the film was completed, this journalist said that he discovered a bit of bigotry in himself. But he realized that this Black boy ... [actor] Kevin Hooks…"

"The truth is, I've always been quietly proud of my real age. Why wouldn't I want to celebrate every crease in my brow, all that hard-earned wisdom that lives between the folds? If my first manager, Wa…"

"My parents began their married life together in a Bronx tenement before later relocating to Manhattan's East Side. The year after they wed, they welcomed my brother, Melrose, a name my father had love…"

"   Her pure and eloquent bloodSpoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought,That one might almost say, her body thought."