Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down

When we come upon beautiful things they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space.

To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed.

How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

Beauty always takes place in the particular.

Beauty brings copies of itself into being.

Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us like a fugitive bird unable to fly, unable to land.

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. You have to learn how to act. It is not something that you can just do.

My top lady advice is to make eye contact early on - before introductions, even - and just never break it, no matter what she does. Keep that dead-eyed lock on her. Works like a charm.

Prayer is the very life-breath of true Christianity.

Young Frank Pastore may have pitched the biggest victory of 1979. Maybe the biggest victory of the year!

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else.

I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.

I am not my self, I am the result of all my ancestors.

Earth has few secrets from the birds.

I ain't never been the type of person out at the movies and holding hands and riding around listening to R. Kelly.