"And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process."

-- Rene Auberjonois

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“In comedy, I hate that cop-out where you say, "Just kidding." I know you're just kidding. Don't insult my intelligence by spelling it out for me that much.”
“The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.”

Source : "The Bahá'í Temple: House of Worship of a World Faith". Book edited by National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'í of the United States, 1942.
“Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”
“While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.”
“I think matching up Vietnam vets with these Iraqi vets would be a really great thing. When soldiers say only other soldiers can understand, that's what they're talking about: what it means to kill.”

Source : "Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq". Interview with Tucker Foehl, www.motherjones.com. October 28, 2004.
“If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.”
“I know the colour rose, and it is lovely, But not when it ripens in a tumour; And healing greens, leaves and grass, so springlike, In limbs that fester are not springlike.”

Source : 'Pathology of Colours' (1968)
“I am for people. I can't help it.”

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