We are in a mutually dependent society, called civilization, and government is the oil that keeps it running and the lifeblood that carries oxygen to the various parts of the civic body.

Sometimes it seems that everybody in the world is in favor of democracy, just as long as it gives them the result they want.

How can you forgive someone when they can't give a reason why?

Jesus and Paul knew the Old Testament completely. Their comments about divorce were meant to add to, not replace or change, what was already written in the Old Testament about marriage and divorce.

No sooner is it a little calmer with me than it is almost too calm as though I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.

I would get very frustrated reading scripts that were bilingual but maybe not bicultural.

Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible.

When I say that the acting is sort of like a normal acting experience, I'm just talking about the interacting in actual scenes, like doing dialogue.

He's a real gentleman. I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it.