The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

But the ability to articulate what you are doing to be clear about it and to stick to it is I think the essence of political leadership.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

There is so I believe in the essence of everything something that we cannot call learning. There is my friend only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves within their own imagination to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter but in still smiles which lie far deeper.

Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees you have such a sense of the passage of time of history. It's like you're touching the essence the very substance of life.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.