When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.

Anything is better than stagnation.

When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder

No ghosts need

The secret to humor is surprise.

Success not maintained is worst than Poverty inheritted. Riches without maintenance is worst than inheritted Poverty.

The great poets are full of bullshit. Love has nothing on hatred's capacity to give a man purpose.

The U.S. Army has recently removed the cross from the insignia worn by chaplains. In its place is a sun with its rays, symbolizing the divine in all things.

When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.

Out of water, I am nothing.

It's every actor's dream to be seen on the big screen. Having said that, it's also imperative to better yourself as an actor all the time. In that, all mediums become important in their own ways.

Today, we can see with our own eyes what global warming is doing. In that context it becomes truly irresponsible, if not immoral, for us not to do something.

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

Understand life's mysteries, - as mysteries to be lived.