Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

What happened when there was no prospect of anything beyond this generation? What happened when...

Treachery and violence are a just return for treachery and violence.

Lucifer wasn't sure what to say. He'd survived six thousand years in Hell, but the past sixty without her were the most torturous of his existence.

Morning dawns when the grace overcomes nature.

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy.

If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps.

To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done.

A picture is never anything but its own plural description.

If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a character actor.