Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!'

He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

Thomas Kempis

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Roman Polanski

Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?

Robert Shea

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.

Dante Alighieri

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at secondhand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at secondhand from other nonexaminers, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

Mark Twain

The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.

Philip Crosby

What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?

William Shakespeare

The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.

Phillip E. Johnson

One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.

Mary Antin

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

C.S. Lewis

When you look at all the miracles attributed to Jesus, they're all about change.

Michael Sheen

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

Will Rogers