Baruch Spinoza

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.