Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker.

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.

Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.

Cover the earth, before it covers you.

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.

If God could make angels, why did he bother with men?

Fate is what Heaven imparts.

No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.

Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.

I did 'The Grey,' and it was very intense and emotional because we're in the wilderness, and it was always 30 degrees. You kind of lose your sense of reality in the fact that you're filming a movie.

The life and fellowship of the church is to be a foretaste of life in the Kingdom of God.

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

I've been fortunate over the years to have been on good teams and as a result I've been able to score some goals but I wouldn't say I'm great at it.

I'll probably stick to comedy for the time being. I mean, a great piece of work is a great piece of work, and I'm up for good work anytime. But I do love comedy!

[My mother] called [my voice] the gift.

Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.

I've always wanted to drive cross-country.