Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.

If peace is what every government says it seeks, and peace is the yearning of every heart, why aren't we studying it and teaching it in schools?

The brain is a harmonic instrument. It vibrates to the same wavelength.

Write the poem only you can write.

It's okay to look back, just don't stare.

All the learn'd are cowards by profession.

Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.

People want movies to be one thing or another; they want it be fact or fiction.

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

As H.L. Mencken once said, 'nobody ever when broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.' Our show [All in the Family] countered that witticism. I think he was wrong.

Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.