I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Your transparency is just another one of your disguises, isn't it? You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

The real virtue is not to be free from desires but to be content with what you have.

Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.

We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.

I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.

The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.

We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.

By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels.