A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms

I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?

There is hope for every soul to know the spirit.

Without nothing, everything would be nothing.

You are the sum of my infatuation and infinite devotion.

I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California.

I've done movies where I've had to cast actors and teach them to rap, and cast rappers and teach them to act.

A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.

Begin where you are. Don't wait for someone else to change things for you. Do it yourself

Know not what you know, and see not what you see. [Lat., Etiam illud quod scies nesciveris; Ne videris quod videris.]

Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution