Silence is all the genius a fool has.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.

We don't believe in a small America. We believe in a big America - a tolerant America, a just America, an equal America - that values the service of every patriot.

If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.

Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.

The only weapon we have is comedy.

Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.

Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.