Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.

Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.

Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the wood, the sea, the desert.

If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.

Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.

Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.

Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

In every work of art, the artist himself is present.

Thank heaven I have given up smoking again! . . . God! I feel fit. A different man. Irritable moody depressed rude perhaps . . . but the lungs are fine.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

I have one rave New York Times review framed next to a flop Los Angeles Times review. And it's for the same show. These people watched the same show. That's what happens. They love it, they hate it.

I think it is important to pass on the message to young people who are going through a difficult time with friends that it will pass.

Now, I'm the most impatient person that ever walked the planet. However: for the best, you always wait.

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

There are many other possibilities more enlightening than the struggle to become the local doctor's most affluent ulcer case.

There's a guy in California who was voting 24 years after he died. I mean, so to suggest to us that people who are concerned about honest elections are somehow nutty, I think, is a mistake.