What other significance can our existence have than to be ourselves fully and completely?

Fear not; the things that you are afraid of are quite likely to happen to you, but they are nothing to be afraid of.

ALL MEANINGFUL KNOWLEDGE IS FOR THE SAKE OF ACTION, AND ALL MEANINGFUL ACTION FOR THE SAKE OF FRIENDSHIP.

If you love a person, you love him in his stark reality, and refuse to shut your eyes to his defects and errors.

Faith is a practical attitude of the will.

I've always loved movies dealing with the terror of a woman who doesn't really know her husband and finds out that he's a monster. It's one of my favorite plots.

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

I think it was the occasion of the final psychological break with Great Britain, in a way that had clearly not happened to that date, especially in New England and to som degree in the South.

There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.

In the nature of the case, an explorer can never know what he is exploring until it has been explored.

It's harder to gain relevance or traction. But I'm of the opinion that if something's really good - not pretty good, but really, really good - people will hear about it.

I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.

Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.

If you can't be free, be a mystery.

The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.