Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Be the help you seek from others.

I'd rather be the jester who adds value to those around me than a King with no vision or intention of making a difference.

Thanksgiving is the only day of the year when most of the stores here are closed during the day and reopen after midnight. Even restaurants shut down for the holiday, except for the fast-food chains.

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

Now I know what it is like to feel like a total idiot.

I've been having problems with the right wing lately.

Corruption hates what is not corrupt.

One does what one is; one becomes what one does.

Life tests the big dreamers the Passionate revolutionaries.

A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.