«Будет больше пользы, если вы уступите дорогу собаке, чем если она вас укусит. Даже убив собаку, вы останетесь укушенным»

«Ничто не урегулировано окончательно, пока не урегулировано справедливо»

«Если бы у меня было восемь часов на то, чтобы срубить дерево, я потратил бы шесть часов на то, чтобы наточить топор»

«Я убедился на собственном опыте, что люди, не имеющие недостатков, имеют очень мало достоинств»

Большинство людей счастливы настолько, насколько они считают себя счастливыми»

« Кто пассивно ждёт — в конце концов получает ожидаемое, но только то, что осталось после тех, кто действовал энергично. »

«Когда я делаю добро, я чувствую себя хорошо. Когда я поступаю плохо, я чувствую себя плохо. Вот моя религия»

«Кем бы ты ни был - будь лучше»

«Отец говорил мне, что надо трудиться; он не говорил, что надо любить трудиться»

«Раз мы взялись за новое дело, мы должны иначе думать и действовать»

«Я всегда был невысокого мнения о тех, кто сегодня не старается быть умнее, чем вчера»

I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent.

Make your ideal your new real.

It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.

They say, You can't give a smile away; it always comes back. The same is true of a kind word or a conversation starter. What goes around, comes around.

So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional.

Pressure comes from a lack of preparation.

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man.

I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.

Good design should be available to everyone - and I do mean everyone. What I spent on the wheelchair I'm in could buy a small Mercedes. It's not only unfair to me; it's unfair to someone who's indigent but has the same needs. My goal is to make all objects affordable.

I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their dreams.

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.

I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.

I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.

With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.

The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .

Johnny Knoxville went from struggling to pay his rent to being on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' in the course of, like, a month.

The movie I've seen a million times - wait, that's not possible - my favorite movie of all times is 'The Empire Strikes Back,' directed by Irvin Kershner, executive-produced by the great George Lucas and stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones.

If you want to believe that humans walked with dinosaurs and the planet is a few thousand years old, that is absolutely fine with me. If you want to teach this to your kids, I don't care. If states want to teach creationism in their schools, there is nothing I can do about it, so I don't sweat it.

I've been embraced by a new community. That's what happens when you're finally honest about who you are; you find others like you.

I've never been a big fan of making telepathy to the audience. That would be too much a wink in the eye. That would make people around me fools, right?

I love Starbucks. Maybe that's a bit sad. But I definitely need my caffeine. It's what gets me out of bed in the morning.