Religion is the highest vanity.

It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.

One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.

What you can become you are already.

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.

Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards.

In a good play, everyone is in the right.

That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

You can't tell an audience to like a character. And I think the best way to get the audience on someone's side is to embarrass them.

The pool of people you care about is going to shift over time.

Memory doesn't erase. The recall ability fails.

I knew from the time I could walk that I wanted to be an actor.

Democracy is not a good that people can enjoy without trouble. It is, on the contrary, a treasure that must be daily defended and conquered anew by strenuous effort.

Prayer, to the thinking person, is almost inescapable.

Getting in touch with unmet needs is important to the healing process.

This is a great opportunity for musicians to display their talent by re-interpreting some classic Kinks songs. Good luck, enjoy, be creative... be outrageous!

I have a tendency, not that anyone I've ever dated I thought wasn't a good person, but sometimes you're not always a good match.