I have taught some master classes and things at my alma mater and sometimes at my kids' school. I will go in and talk to the theater students. I wouldn't really call myself a teacher.

The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

Thoughts -- just mere thoughts -- are as powerful as electric batteries -- as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison.

Was it an accident... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society.

Why do you have to hate what you don't understand?

The terms socialist and communist are mostly about describing the world we want after capitalism, and I think they are both important.

Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger?

We are going to have a huge Oscar issue, you are going to see everything in such beautiful detail.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.