Waiting from heaven for the spark to fall.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

When life presents you with a problem, have the courage, find the solution and become bigger than the problem.

The best trees produce the sweetest fruits.

Too slow for those who wait Too swift for those who fear Too long for those who grieve Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love time is not.

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone.

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.

I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?

The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.