Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Passionate—that means to live for the sake of living. But one knows that you all live for sake of experience. Passion, that is self-forgetfulness. But what you all want is self-enrichment.

Travelers prove their lack of education if they make fun of the customs and values of their hosts, and the qualities that do a person honour are many and varied.

I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall grant death no dominion over his thoughts.

There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth...

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present we shall find we have lost the future.

I'm just really interested in the interface of the individual with the collective. I think that's where the arts live.

In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.

Quite frankly, we wouldn't have the problems that we have in America right now if somebody did a better job - if our politicians did a better job standing up for our country.

I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it.

Now on 'Bachelor Pad' it is true colors - no best foot forward anymore, everybody is really themselves.

I don’t have too many books, I have too little shelving.

All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.