[Mark] Twain called Congress "the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary." That was a fact.

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.

Death ends a life. But it doesn't end a relationship.

The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.

There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope

One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

In pursuing a ‘way, ’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.

He was obviously on the wrong side of crazy.

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

If you want to be interesting, be interested.

Children...they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years.

Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.

This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.

Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices.

Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises.