Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

What did I want? I wanted the war to be over so I could ask her out.

The Kingdom of God is, in reality, the mental kingdom of a conscientious, compassionate and courageous human.

The only person we have the right or the power to forgive is ourselves. For everything else there is the Art of Acceptance.

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.

Scars heal, glory fades, and all we're left with are the memories made. pain hurts, but only for a minute. life is short, so go on and live it.

I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.

Acting and modeling have nothing to do with each other.

You can't be fixed. You can't be saved.

I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed.