War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.
There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.
There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.
When I portray Stabler, I have to shave every day and cut my hair every week! And then, I really like to change my looks for films like 'Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle' where I have the pleasure of playing the ugliest man in the world.
Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful.
If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world.
We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.