If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.

One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.

What you can become you are already.

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.

Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.

With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards.

In a good play, everyone is in the right.

That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.

There are persons who always find a hair in their plate of soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in.

Silence is the mother of truth.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

When you go to your knees God will help you stand up to anything.

My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors. I didn't have an agent at the time, and it kind of threw me into real acting.

The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.

And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a lot more successful than I could have done if I had planned it all myself.

The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

I am not who I would like to be, It's just who I am right now.

There's nothing efficient about innovation.