Only when you see the flower for what it is, you can see it's true beauty

Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness.

Absurd laughter is a kind of protest against an absurd existence.

Then here's to the City of Boston The town of the cries and the groans Where the Cabots can't see the Kabotschniks And the Lowells won't speak to the Cohns.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

In the war on terrorism, the immigrant is often the scapegoat.

[C. Montgomery] Burns is much purer evil than Nixon was. I think it's the purity of his evil that attracts me as a comic character.

I want to roll my eyes right now, but the doctor says that if I keep doing it, my ocular muscles might spasm and eject my eyeballs.

Genius is nourished from within and without.