To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

I've never walked out of a room and had a disagreement as to what was said.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

I've been smoking nearly 50 years now. I just don't feel safe breathing anything I can't see!

As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.

Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.

And Seinfeld is so quick: we crank out one show a week, and the hours are very reasonable

Anger is an uncivil attempt to make another feel guilty or a cruel way of trying to correct them.

I don’t care about the word ‘art’ because it has been so discredited. So I want to get rid of it. There is an unnecessary adoration of ‘art’ today.

Being actors we are dealing with the beauty and complexity of human confusion, no? And we are always trying to get answers.

I think Aussies try to stay humble.