What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

Humor is the mask of wisdom.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

Courage is the most important spiritual quality.

Life is an adventurous ride in a train we call time.

I think being on a film set for such a long time made me a technical actor without realizing it.

It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.

Most people call me Mercy. I like it

In the business of acting, those are the actors that make the trains run on time, you know? There's nothing without them.

Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward.

If you think I've got a lot of sponsors, you should see the stuff I turn down.

I go out on stage, and my intention is to make the first four rows bleed from their ears.

We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous.