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.

[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated.

Constant thoughts of money, possession, and control are a personal prison. Thoughts of God, family, and happiness are freedom.

The "I love you"s are exchanged excessively under our roof. Cancer teaches you how important and critical that is.

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.

To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business.

If I had not obeyed that command of God, concerning plural marriage, I believe that I would have been damned.

I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning.

I remember telling ghost stories with my cousins when I was four, five, six-years-old. I've just always loved it. But I think you're drawn to things you're terrified of.

Some people say I have issues. I say those people need to expand their horizons because I don't have issues, I have the Library of Congress

The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.

I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.