Well I am a lot like my dad and the character of Ted is based on my dad.

OK so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was gay and so I was like 'Why in the heck did you get married?' Like what was going on? What was that time? It's like this crazy paradox that my whole life is based on or my family's based on. So I spent a lot of time trying to understand '55.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Freedom is a system based on courage.

Most of man's problems upon this planet in the long history of the race have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles face change full of courage courage based on faith.

Courage is often lack of insight whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

Real nobility is based on scorn courage and profound indifference.

I'm pretty content with what I have but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.

I shall suggest on the contrary that all communication relies to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell and that all our knowledge of mental processes like feelings or conscious intellectual activities is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.