One who is addicted to intoxicating drinks and meat eating and leads a sensuous life is a demonic being.Such a person is intensely selfish and has no feeling or consideration for others.

Man cannot live without joy, therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

Love is all we have the only way that each can help the other.

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

The trouble is that racial stereotypes unfavourable to everyone but white men of northwest European extraction were completely accepted and indeed scarcely noted in those days of only forty years ago [the 1930s] (except perhaps by the members of the groups victimized thereby).

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune when you will gain a tear from those who listen this is worth the trouble.

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

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