In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

Only a few things are really important.

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole.

I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons

Character is what you have when nobody is looking.

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

The revolution in global communications thus forces all nations to reconsider traditional ways of thinking about national sovereignty.

In order to heal, you have to first be broken.

The source of evil is desire, greed, and anger.

I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.

Conformity is painful. You know, it's too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom.

Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.

Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.

Most people stop learning out of fear. They are afraid they cannot learn.

There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

Our religion doesn't demand perfection but instead a manageable strive to better ourselves.