Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

The sound of the words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.

To go on being an actor, you need sheer animal energy. If you can't restock your energy, you have to hide your lack of it.

In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.

Everybody has a colon. Everyone over 50 needs to get their colon checked.

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away.

When I have plucked the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again, It needs must wither. I'll smell it on the tree.