Gratitude free of compassion is selfishness. It is nothing more than being happy for what has been done to benefit you.

The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism.

Whether you actually can or can't fight city hall is of little relevance. Either way, when the need arises, you must!

The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent man is determined by his tolerance toward them.

Infinity is just zero spelled backwards.

If you're going to condemn a people based on the actions of the worst of its ranks; take a good look at the worst of your people first and judge yourself.

Those who are offended by something are most often those who deserve to be offended by it.

An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that idea.

Reality trumps rationality.

Keep the people ignorant and afraid and control and power becomes a detail - a self generating byproduct of the people's hysteria.

Too many people today believe that you can fight fascism with fascism. This of course is an impossibility. Fascism times any other number always equals fascism.

Work and acquire and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.

I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild.

I've been pretty lucky, I like my jobs.

Without the Internet I would have no fans and I wouldn't be in this business. I owe everything to the Internet and my fans.

There is no great force for change, for peace, for justice and democracy, for inclusive economic growth than a world of empowered women.

But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow.

Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world that might cease to exist.

Believe in miracles. And live in a way that might necessitate one.

As an actor, the second and last ones were interesting for me. Because those parts had the most change in playing someone who was both light and dark, sort of Jekyl and Hyde.

Welcome ever smiles, and farewell goes out sighing.