Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

Into each life some rain must fall.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

Most people are boring and stupid.

At a certain point, unabashed optimism becomes delusional insanity.

I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.

More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.

Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.

The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

The Net is not a single home. Rather, it's an environment where thousands of small homes and communities can form and define and design themselves.

Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.

Hanson? Yeah, I've heard of them, I saw them perform and they have an interesting sound. I wish them every success.

I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.