It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I'm using or not.

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.

[On Denmark:] ... that little country of cottage cheese and courage.

How did it make you feel?

Regarding Fasting: Have the faith to bind the Lord.

Love didn't always solve the problem; sometimes it became the problem.

It's a very complicated landscape and I don't think there's one easy answer about it [Edard Snowden movie].

There's no traffic jam on the extra mile.