As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going about beyond the reach of rivers?

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.

We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste

And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.

There are idiots in every crowd.

When you play a character with power and energy, people lock into that and go, "Oh, this must be the guy."

Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived.

I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.

You know, folks, I'm going to make America great again. Honestly, I'm going to make America great again.