Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

For after the Battle comes quiet.

If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.

The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.

It's against reason, " said Filby."What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.

I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation.

Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.

So much of what I do is inspired by and for the LGBTQ community and for everyone but, just, being a theater kid and wanting to do stuff that represents us in a positive light.

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

In engineering, people have a big margin of safety. But in the financial world, people don't give a damn about safety. They let it balloon and balloon and balloon. It's aided by false accounting.

We should remind ourselves that laughing together is as close as you can get to another person without touching, and sometimes it represents a closer tie than touching ever could.

I'd like to believe there are people who are good, I know there are good Christians and good people from every faith who just want what's best for humanity.

I've grown up a lot, and I've realized that what I need to make myself happy is the people around you.

The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms.

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.