Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Some scars don't hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again.

Blood is the symbol of the life sacrificed for sin.

Politics is history in the making.

Always drink at least 8 ounces of water or a sugar-free decaffeinated beverage with every meal or snack. If you are a heavy caffeine user, gradually reduce caffeine intake to zero whenever possible.

Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get excited you can see it in their eyes.

What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?

Israel's a small country but both the audience and programme-makers are very sophisticated.

Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for!

As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being.

We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body.