A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

Jests that give pains are not jests.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.