Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that’s the light.

The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won’t be with others, but with yourself.

Praise is the portal to the presence of God.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

None can love freedom heartily but good men - the rest love not freedom but licence.

In terms of political contributions, the free speech rights of corporations I dont think deserve the same protections as the free speech rights of real living, breathing, voting humans.

I could sneak up on a coyote if I've a mind to!

The problem is that people love music and they love television, but people don't love music on TV.

I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.

Life from nonlife, like wine from water, has long been considered a miracle wrought by gods or God. Now it is seen to be the near-inevitable consequence of our thermal and chemical circumstances.