Selfishness is the only real atheism.

It takes two men to make one brother.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common.

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

New York is the great stone desert.

Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad.

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.

I firmly believe that if you pray long enough, if you wish hard enough, God will grant you at least one wish in your lifetime.

I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.

I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.

I started improvisation at age nine, and I loved it so much I stuck with it. As a by-product, acting was just something I was lucky enough to fall into.

The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.

The process of doing a play is an organic one and the process of doing a film is totally un-organic.

The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was C.S. Lewis and the 'Narnia' books.

Music comes out of me most naturally and would be the hardest to give up forever.