And anyway, the anticipation was always worse than the thing itself - the anticipation and the memory, of course. And the anticipation of the memory was maybe the worst part of all.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.

How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?

He'd (Yogi Berra) fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch.

Self-acceptanc e leads to success, not the other way around.

Such events may be disbelieved or disregarded; but the charity of a bishop, Acacius of Amida, whose name might have dignified the saintly calendar, shall not be lost in oblivion.

Faire language grates not the tongue.

People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries.

I'm one of the actors who really enjoys working with kids and animals, which is always a no go. There's something beautiful about it because you tend to forget yourself, as an actor.

Every one of us is more beloved than we can possibly understand or imagine. Let us therefore be kinder to one another and kinder to ourselves.