I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

Let my country die for me.

Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.

Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

What dreams would he have, not seeing. Life a dream for him. Where is the justice being born that way?

He laughed to free his mind from his minds bondage.

Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.

All day long, one continues to suffer sweet or bitter fruits. This life has been attained for the purpose of experiencing!

Secrets have a way of making themselves felt, even before you know there's a secret.

Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.

I talk a lot about women in my act, 'cause let's face it -- if I was hungry, I would talk about food.

Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.

It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor Im a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.

The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.

I have always thought that one of the signs of natural leaders of men (and women) was their readiness to take the necessary pains to keep their followers with them.

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.

We cannot let colorblindness become myopia which masks the reality that many "created equal" have been treated within our lifetimes as inferior both by the law and by their fellow citizens.