Everything hinges on how you look at things

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

He says "You are my property" and I feel relieved. After all, no one wishes to shatter what he owns.

Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.

All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.

I always try to remember that praise and a slap on your back is only 6 inches away from a kick up the arse!

I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.

Ordinary people seem to not like me. They tend to think that I’m a little weird.

The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

We're creating an ownership society in this country, where more Americans than ever will be able to open up their door where they live and say, welcome to my house, welcome to my piece of property.

Once upon a time there was no Time.

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.