Children become more liberal partly as a reaction to their parents and partly through education. Education tends to make people a bit softer.

I think the attractiveness of Buddhism is that it doesn't involve a belief in God. That appeals to a lot of people - intellectuals and well-educated people in particular.

Life is very difficult and we owe it to our fellow human beings to be as cheerful as we can.

I would like to see an agreement that recognizes that we live on the same planet and that some interests, such as human rights, must be universal and that all religions must be respected.

I've often admired the way many Catholics who have left the priesthood, for example, have nevertheless remained sincere Catholics. They voted with their feet.

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.

I'm what you call a Depression sailor.

The message of love is self-acceptance in the smaller sense and self-acceptance in the large sense - the Self as eternity.

I don't hurt the industry. The industry hurts itself, by making so many lousy movies - as if General Motors deliberately put out a bad car.

Senator Joseph McCarthy was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived.

A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.

There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.

Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.

Life for the majority of the population. Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds. Culminating in a cheap funeral.