To a society that inarticulately and thoughtlessly takes itself to be divine, Hegel says, Yes, we are indeed divine, and philosophy can show how this is both possible and necessary.

It is the shared bad faith by which individuals help each other sustain the illusion that they can shirk their spiritual destiny by joining the public.

I’m so afraid I’m not worth the breath you gave me…

I got into comedy because I wanted to get into writing.

If your opponent is at a distance, kick him in the groin. If he gets close, poke him in the eyes, bring up your knee, pop him with an elbow, dig a corkscrew punch to his stomach.

The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.

This whole career has been way more than I ever even imagined or dreamed.

I've always been athletic and a dancer, so I love doing fight choreography.

It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission.

The way we're going to get to understanding is for each man to open his heart and open his mind and look in himself as he looks at his neighbor.

There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.