If you take a look at history you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards in order to express this idea.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal and history only the particular.

Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem not its cause.

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes no matter how much happiness they may find there.

Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.

Nobody I think ought to read poetry or look at pictures or statues who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

To me acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves in this great need we all have to express ourselves.