What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.
After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.
I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.
There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
Four hundred wickets is 400 more than I thought I'd get.
I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.
The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.
With a thriller, you're going to have your red herrings, as different suspects are thrown up as possible culprits. You can only explore that for so long - if you do that more than a few times, it starts to get a little redundant.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
I can't wait for them to convert old movies to 3D. I am 100% confident I want them to convert 'Terminator 2' to 3D more than I want anything in the world.
I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
I've gotten out of bed a lot of days for a lot less than $10,000.
I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they're generally mentally tougher, and they're better listeners, and they're more capable of surviving things.
Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played in various ways. There are 'holes' and 'bank' and 'caps.' But every game finishes up in the same way. One boy loses, another wins. And, as always, he who wins is a clever fellow, a smart fellow, a good fellow.
The whole question of God and what God is, and whether it's a blond guy with a beard, I don't know... I don't know that. Do I believe that there's something greater at work than the sum of humanity? Yeah, I think so.
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Well, people can get advice almost anywhere, but they can't find a companion almost anywhere. And far more than being an advice-giver or somebody who just plays sappy love songs, I really am a companion on the radio at night.
There is nothing more rewarding than winning when you're looked at as not being capable of doing so.
I like going to places that are so different than where I'm from.
I love being on stage. There's nothing better than that feeling; ever since the first time I was on stage, I was like, 'Oh, this is what it means to be fully alive and satisfied.' I don't think anything's as satisfying as a play.
New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.
There's nobody who has as big of a real-time logistics network than Uber.
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
I've drunk Amazon's free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I'm not anti-Amazon, and I'm not pro-publishers either. I'm pro-books.
I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general.
It is better to laugh than cry.
