The more I see of dogs, the more I like children.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.

Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.

A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.

I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.

We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light, then lost in infinite distance.

it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.

I don't know how you can move out of one's socioeconomic category if you don't have education.

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party.

If you can neither accept it or change it, try to laugh at it.

We have a saying in Guns N Roses: When somebodys gonna get yelled at, theyre gonna get the corn.

The Word of God conceived in the heart, formed by the tongue, and spoken out of the mouth is creative power.

The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing

Feeling alone and unseen can intensify the experience of being harassed, shamed, or bullied.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

I think the most important thing is to establish myself as an actor. As much as it's a performing art, I'm not really a performer.