In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

To sleep is an act of faith.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Food is my drug of choice.

The only difference between holding one god as exclusive or supreme and believing in many gods specialized in function is the number.

I've been doing Porky Pig for 21 years for Warner Brothers.

The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which grows everything, from alpines to potatoes.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.

I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die.

One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.

It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

You don't have to be alone to feel alone.

I hold the ratchet unorthodox. Pernell Whittaker, I'm duckin' all sorts of shots