Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.

A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

Time the devourer of everything.

The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful leverage on his human world.

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.

Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

The mature mind seeks to follow through.

The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

My mother is my teacherHer words make me richerI thank you oh my motherMay you grow and live longer!

It's the most amazing thing to be able to forgive.

We call upon all sides to stop hostilities and restart peace talks.

I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone.

There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are.

I'm a nerd and you bet I love what I do. I am so damn good at it.

Manicheanism is like a vacuum, it is an either or situation that curtails or destroys the development of liberatory thought.

In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever.

I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.