I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.

Individualism and mobility are at the core of American identity

We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking of our children even as we make them.

In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.

The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.

How do we accurately evoke land we love? What should we even call the world we walk and drive through-scenery, landscape?

Home is where we know - and are known - through accumulated experience.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.

Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right." "Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of God's most lonely men.

I used my talent as a speaker giving lectures to young people at schools in Hungary and I speak against hatred and anti-Semitism.

You're an original, an individual, a masterpiece. Celebrate that; don't let your uniqueness make you shy. Don't be someone other than the wonder you are. Every star is important to the sky.

If you really want to change a culture... empower women.

If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.

Broadway is like a club I haven't been invited to, and I'm hoping that maybe they will give me a guest pass one of these days.

Angels and Airwaves shows are like an ascension to Heaven.