Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

Respectable people... What bastards!

Do not wait and hope to be discovered...make yourself so you cannot be denied!

Right underneath your thoughts and negative emotions exists an ocean of love. You have but to quiet the mind to experience it.

I knew there was only one place to go. I sank down into the center of my soul, grew still, and listened to the Rabbi's heartbeat.

I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing. Keep proving people wrong and proving myself right.

For me success was always going to be a Lamborghini. But now I've got it, it just sits on my drive.

I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up Backstage magazine auditions and grinding.

I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash. It was like elephants holding tails. Imagine me undressing a nun, even second hand.

Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.

Pride does not listen. It knows.

God puts mentors in your path. They may not look like you, sound like you, or be what you expect. But they always know more that you.