My advice about acting? Speak clearly, don't bump into people, and if you must have motivation, think of your pay packet on Friday.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
A speech does not need to be eternal to be immortal.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
To be simple is to be great.
It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.
A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.
Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
Everything should be made as simple as possible ... but not simpler.
To be simple is the best thing in the world.
If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.
Keep breathing.
I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between I occupy myself as best I can.
Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to cover one over, steadily, almost irresistibly, like falling snow.
Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?
