"A poet or philosopher should have no..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.”

“Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.”

“Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.”

“Genius is intellect constructive.”

“I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.”

“Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.”

“If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.”

“Let them call me rebel, and welcome, I feel no concern from it.”

“Good government is no substitute for self-government.”