It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

While negativity is politically useful it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience or whether that's even possible interested me.

For me first it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat because I think what we eat can inform who we are food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.