I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

Rick Steiner is so stupid, it takes him an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

Home is the place where you feel happy.

Comedy has always been something I love, but for some reason - probably because of the British accent - I've always been pushed toward more period work.

I loafe and invite my soul.