I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.
When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.
To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
These are the days for strong men to courageously expose wrong.
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.
There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.