It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

Life calls the tune, we dance.

I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

Beginnings are always messy.

People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.

A divine power delivers us from every danger.

Discomfort it temporary. A photo is forever.

I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, but it took about 10 days and comedy clubs were packed.

From an acting point of view you need to look at what you're bringing in.

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

All the technique you can learn - and you should learn everything you can - you should have it here in the fingers not here in the head - and then you forget about it.

Belief is the natural state of things. It is the default option. We just believe. We believe all sorts of things. Belief is natural; disbelief, skepticism, science, is not natural.

As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.

I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town