The more we explore, understand, and even come to appreciate our own self-destructive mental attitudes, the more control we gain over our minds.

Aggression in bears can be and often is a stepping stone to friendship. Friendship and alliances frequently develop by repeated interactions, with initial aggression that lessens over time.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.

Women, tend to talk more than men, and they do this thing where they say things that can easily be shown. Like, they don't need to do that.

I'm an introspective dude.

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

I've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre.

One of the easiest things in the world to do is to tell other people how to raise their children. This is especially easy if you have no children of your own.

Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks.