Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

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

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

A person preaches well that lives well.