I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, its governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.

Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.

People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter.

I didnt want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.

The only disability in life is a bad attitude/

Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

To say I love you is to say that you are not mine, but rather your own.

I don't like futons. They can't commit. I'm a bed! I'm a couch! I'm a bed! I'm a couch!

Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?

If it's true love, then it will abide. If it was a fleeting crush, then it will turn to dust. Either way, the truth will out.

The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance.

A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.

Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.