Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Everybody looks good in their own mirror!

Shower the darkness with loveand watch light illuminate.

Speaking and listening are a form of psychic breathing.

I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.

You know who likes to get fisted? Sock puppets.

Coming to grips with the reality that our planet is not the only one harboring intelligent life the universe.

I'll continue making films because I love being able to drop into other people's worlds. My goal is to be constantly learning.

You don't build yourself up by putting someone else down.

Yes it's going really well. We are planning on having a baby together.

The America that has flourished for more than two centuries is being quietly but steadily dismantled by the Obama administration.