Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.

They're the perfect loving fam'ly, so adoring...And I love them ev'ry day of ev'ry week.So my son's a little shit, my husband's boring, And my daughter, though a genius, is a freak.

But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world.

Child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived within him and who he will miss terribly

I've never been drunk but often I've been overserved.

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the death of politeness between a man and a woman.

We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before.

Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.

City wits, country humorists.

I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.