I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way.

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

..And because he was still able to move his hands - Morrie always spoke with both hands waving - he showed great passion when explaining how you face the end of life.

You cannot move forward in your life if you do not allow yourself to move.

When people pushes you to end, trust God fully because two things are likely to happen. Either He holds when you fall or teaches you how to fly.

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.

We are the space in which thoughts appear, play, and dissolve like clouds drifting in the infinite sky.

[My father] was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman," I must say. He recognized himself to some extent.

Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

... we disallow papistical doctrines of free will, of works of supererogation, of merits, of the necessity of auricular confession, and satisfaction to God-wards.

Democracy doesn't recognize east or west and democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself.