The strength of weak people constantly appalls me. Have you ever seen a vine kill an oak tree? Deadly.

Hatred is one of the poisons; like jaundice, it alters the true colors of things.

You can't remain inactive in the face of injustice without, to some extent, being guilty of it.

Every murder strikes at the heart of civilization; it is an attack on all mankind.

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.

People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities.

I always feel sorry for people who think more about a rainy day ahead than sunshine today.

The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic.

There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant.

The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.

Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The difference in your case is that it's true.

All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.

Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.

The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.

It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity

I've always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100% perfect.

Anybody can be a role model, anybody can.

My upbringing was very un-Hollywood. I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch.

God is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He's painting.

If you are not sensitive to rejection, doesn't that also mean you're indifferent to love?