I'm the old type setter who gets his blood poisoned from the ink.

Enjoy the stillness, sweet snail! Savor the spring breeze while it still means something! Soon enough, like summer tempests your tears will come!

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

We appreciate things not for their beauty but for how they kindle our minds’ generosity.

It's much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.

Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.

During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland

A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.

It was just the best thing in my life, to come to Minnesota.

All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.

Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.