I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story I could not test at the time by experiment or private judgment, I am firmly of the opinion that I was born on the 29th of May, 1874, on Campden Hill, Kensington; and baptised according to the formularies of the Church of England in the little church of St. George opposite the large Waterworks Tower that dominated that ridge.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.