For mine is the old belief... There is a soil in every leaf.

You may get a large amount of truth into a brief space.

Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.

In the book, you lost your powers. In the movie, you chose not to use them as much. I guess I did a little of both.

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

I listen mostly to classical music.

Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.

Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges.

It's a horrible feeling - there's nothing worse for any player than to be thinking at the back of your mind that there's something wrong with you.

People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.

We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.

Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.

He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.