What will we be doing, when everything that can be done, can be done better by robots?

Who am I, for God's sake, that I should be kind!

Open your eyes. This horrible mess is your life. There is no sense in waiting for it to get better. Stop putting it off and live it.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Personal liberty is not personal license.

The power of gentleness is irresistible.

And to have spent the night sleeping and awoken regretful, is better than to have spent the night standing (in prayer) and awaken impressed with oneself!

Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.

There aren't as many roles for people who look like me, and it was always complicated when it came to casting my parents. But now I couldn't be more grateful that I have a different look.

Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.