Happiness is a hard master- particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestioningly, than truth.

When the individual feels, the community reels, Lenina pronounced. Well, why shouldn't it reel a bit?

I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

It is people who are important, not the masses.

Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.

The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.

God put us here to go through this kind of mental gymnastics, and He certainly put us here to enjoy our sexual lives. He put us here to ask, to try and find out the best way possible to live with our neighbors. Of course, you can go through a life not asking, and that's the tragedy: so many lives lived in moral blindness.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, things arenÃ

When I did 'E.T. ' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.'

By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.