I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn't get one.

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.

Death ends a life. But it doesn't end a relationship.

The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.

There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope

One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

[Mark] Twain called Congress "the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary." That was a fact.

Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care then the happiest individual... would be I think an American cow.

Nothing changes what alreaday happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.

Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.

Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?

Truly different behaviors require truly distinct situations.

I don't know why people get so bent out of shape over stuff people say.

Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.

How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others, it is put for the light of the world.

Shall we upon the footing of our land Send fair-play orders, and make compromise, Insinuation, parley, and base truce, To arms invasive?