“I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.”

History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.

Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.

Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.

The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.

In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.

Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

The law is a horrible business.

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.

We are the middle children of history. Born too late to explore earth, born too early to explore space.

We instantly believe everything we think. Isn’t that insane? It’s good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we are just as crazy as everyone else!

A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies…

It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected.

I like exploring life and its complexities.

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people’s lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

You really have to work hard to create a three-dimensional character. You have to rehearse and explore and take your time. You can’t just memorize your lines and do it on the fly.