If you cannot teach others what you have learned, then you have learned nothing.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

There are crimes which the Law cannot reach.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

It's a skill that I worked all my life, and it's been taken away. That's kind of tough to take.

Technique bridges among ideas, and sometimes generates them.

I honestly think I'm just an actor. It doesn't matter the medium. I can go on stage and be happy, I can be on TV and be happy.

To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.