"God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction."

“When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.”

“Maybe,” he said in a slow, rural drawl, “you could explain to me why I found you in the middle of an orgy.” “Well,” I said, “if you’re going to be in an orgy, the middle is the best spot, isn’t it.”

“It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the judgments which we pass upon men must be qualified by considerations of age, country, station, and other accidental circumstances; and it will then be found that he who is most charitable in his judgment is generally the least unjust.”

“I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth.”

“My whole purpose of being a musician is to not follow the rules, so if I set rules for myself, I've already failed.”

“The real axis of social change is not horizontal, but vertical. We don't need a whole bunch of people gathering to think shallow thoughts together. What we need is for as many people as are ready to gather and think deep thoughts together.”

“Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C we would have used it as well.”

“I'm not really deaf; I just faked it to win the Oscar KIDDING.”