Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions become civilian regiments to fight in the cause of the people.

Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.

I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.

Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you.

Now you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Remember, and make it up to your Mama and to all women.

As your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit.

She has passed information to you. Figures names and facts. You have learnt nothing very much. But you have a splendid memory. It will help you when you start to learn.

Man is a coward in space, for he is by himself.

The brevity of life is the grace to walk on your own path.

Now the day has ended, its brief excitements already an imperfect memory.

Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.

The actor doesn't merely command the stage, he seems to own it by divine right.

The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.

I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

I always had one goal, and that was to be a real funny stand-up comic, and that's pretty much what I'm doing. And everything else is kind of like gravy - TV, movies.

I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.