It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

To me life is simply an invitation to live.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.

I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars?

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others.

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad.

There's no point in arguing with an idiot - save for exposing their stupidity in their own words.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Without empathy, there'd be no harmony in diversity

I wouldn’t change any of my reactions.

If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.

I've done a lot of Samurai film in Japan, and sometimes done the choreography by myself.

To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness.. ..Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing.

If Arsenal played like this all the time they could win the league

No disrespect to anyone. I just didn't know where the flag was.