There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

The price of justice is eternal publicity.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

The moment you're born you're done for.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Women are strange and incomprehensible a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment.

Any change even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Being a husband is a whole time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

One of the commonest characteristics of the successful man is his idleness, his immense capacity for wasting time.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

I tried to have more than one emotion on the record.

I have lived too completely, I think. I have known every human emotion.

I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there.

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen.

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.