The real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: "How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my friends, colleagues, and peers?

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

If you allow coldness to engulf you before winter, season is helpless to help you.

A publisher is somebody looking for someone who has something to say.

In training everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races its 90% mental because there's very little that separates us physically at the elite level

They didn’t get me, I should have said. They saved me.

I hadn't the heart to touch my breakfast. I told Jeeves to drink it himself.

Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.

Rose early to seek God and found Him whom my soul loveth. Who would not rise early to meet such company?

The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.

Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.