There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?

Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation

The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.

Art is a song of the soul that is sung by the light of the heart with the color of emotion and appreciation.

A wilderness experience includes a long walk back.

If I have to choose between a person who has everything but loyalty and another who has nothing but loyalty, I go for the latter. Go loyal!

I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.

Good health is not the absence of symptoms, it is the presence of peace.

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

We want everyone to prepare themselves for the reality that we are not going to be able to recover significant numbers of people.

My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.