Insanity is a lack of proportion.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

To sleep is an act of faith.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Food is my drug of choice.

Being normal?1 I have never had this experience.

The longer a thing is to take doing, the more reason to begin at once

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

Peace is not only better than war but infinitely more arduous.

You have to jump into the pool before you know whether there's water in it.

It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.

If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.

I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .

If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.

If the U.S. is going to defend itself, why shouldn't we do the same? We only want to be treated equally, nothing more.