You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.

Death ends a life. But it doesn't end a relationship.

The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.

There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

[Mark] Twain called Congress "the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary." That was a fact.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

The smallest act of compassion can save a soul, perhaps your own.

My life isn't perfect and it will never be I make mistakes, I learn from them and keep moving forward.

Learn to resist but do not be un-moveable in your resistance. Resist like the water.

No one on earth is "functionless". The problem we usually have is that functions of people are being displayed in the wrong positions! Change position!

It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Taoist philosophy is essentially monistic. Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.

[Hillary Clinton] is also reckless. So reckless, in fact, that she put her emails on an illegal server that our enemies could easily hack and probably have.

A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.