Art must not serve might.

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

I think I am slowly becoming an anarchist, that this is only another label for my privateness, and I think that you will understand this in the sense of being against collectivity.

Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end...

Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.

No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.

I think you can't dip your toe in and dip your toe out. I think either you're in it or you're not.

I live only in the moment in this strange unmortal space, crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

My sin in the past: forgiven. My current struggles: covered. My future failures: paid in full all by the marvelous, infinite, matchless grace found in the atoning work of the cross of Jesus Christ.

Change your mental imagery, and the feelings will take care of themselves.

Of all the weapons in the world, love is the most dangerous.