First, never go against the best light you have; second, take care that your light be not darkness.

Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.

Finn was different.And he was different because she wanted him in her left in a way she hadn't wanted anyone for a very long time.Maybe ever.

Even logic and conversation are really just forms of trading, and as in all things, humans will always try to seek their own best advantage, to seek the greatest profit they can from the exchange.

Knowledge is power but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.

The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.

There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.

In the democratic way of life it is not the best things in life are free, but rather the best things in life are worth working for!

I'm pretty sure my dog, Pip, gets lonely when there is no one to be with him. But we humans can end up with a gnawing worry about that separation possibly becoming a permanent condition.

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.