I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

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.

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.

Church leaders may get disappointed in ministry if they do not know God’s time.

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

Flowers and pricker bushes grow out of the same dust.

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

The key to winning any general election in the USA is to excite your base and then expand your base - get independent voters and voters who haven't been voting for your party to come to your party.

Only by our positive thinking, by our bringing the positive qualities of others to the fore, will this world be able to make progress.

Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.

Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.

Be careful of leverage. It can go against you.