I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

We may fight for the cause of international peace because we are very fond of fighting.

Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest has failed.

When Nietszche says, "A new commandment I give to you, be hard" he is really saying, "A new commandment I give to you, be dead." Sensibility is the definition oflife.

Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are.

There is nothing which is so weak for working purposes as the enormous importance attached to immediate victory.

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.

In the land of the ostriches, the blind are king. When politicians bury their head in the sand, ignorance rules the country. ( "High noon." )

Be What You Want To Be, Not Who Others Wants To See

The less one notices happiness, the greater it is.

That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.

I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.

I'd rather people love me or hate me than have no opinion of me. Indifference is scary.

If you want a happy ending you have to go out and take it.

How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.

I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as an actor.