But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither.

Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.

Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the débris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering.

At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything.

Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he?

Numbers constitute the only universal language.

Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.

Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.

Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.

Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.

He thought of how calm he was. His calm was so perfect that he could not destroy it even by being conscious of it.

O, how this spring of love resemblethThe uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away!

Man’s desire is to know the mind of God.

Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker.

Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.

There are no days off in our division. Even a team like Tampa Bay can beat you up.

In Hollywood, you grow up quick.

For me, there's always a huge attraction in playing real people. But with it comes an incredible sense of responsibility because you're playing a real person in a real event.

Because the moment you stop doing the very things that got you to the top of the mountain is the very moment you begin the slid down to the valley.

We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels.

Scrap doesn't come for free, we pay someone to make it.