Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.

I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.

I'll never be alone, because I'll always have My Problems with me!

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection.

I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.

The whole barrier exists because most people never come together and sit down at a table ... join together, break bread together, and celebrate their differences and their likenesses.

Janis Joplin didn't just sing a song, she took it over. She swallowed it whole, then sent it back through her gut and her heart.

"Slightly lower than the angels" is a whole lot better than slightly higher than the apes. Let's get the order straight. God, angelic beings, man, animals, and vegetables.