A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.

Life means progress, and progress means suffering.

In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.

Each night I lie and dream about the oneWho kissed me and awakened my desireI spent a single hour with him aloneAnd since that hour, my days are layed with fire.

I am used to praying when I am alone thank God. But when I come together with other people when I need more than ever to pray I still cannot get used to it.

It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m.

I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive and instinctive.

To be able to create you have to have peace of mind on some level.

The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

Wrap up the 20th century; Fred Astaire is gone.

Even with insects - some can sing, some can't.

We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.