Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

....because of all the things in this world that can hurt you and knock you down, I will never be one of them.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Successful people breed success.

A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor.

Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.

It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.

In the distance someone is singing.

The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death

As has often been said, a ship is like a lady's watch, always out of repair.

I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on.