Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.

Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.

if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.

Most of the things one worries about never happen.

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

When I first was offered the role on Rise [of the Planet of the Apes], I always played Caesar as a human being within ape skin.

An America where every person, no matter their race, their disability or their sexual orientation realizes the full promise of equality that is our birthright as Americans.

...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.

As a personal matter, I stopped voting more than a decade ago, on the grounds that it helped me as an analyst not to think about making a choice in the voting booth.

Sixty-five seconds," he said. "You weren't breathing for sixty-five seconds after we found you. I lived and died during each one of them." He let out a breath. "Never again.

Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states.

So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up.

It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one's readiness to meet him; not to presume that he will not attack, but rather to make one's self invincible.

They don't know that I'm already asking for the moon.