I want to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving

I'll be your friend so long as you're not crap

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

George, I know you’re tired. But President Lincoln, he didn’t free us to be lazy and no good. He freed us to work hard and improve ourselves.”-George’s Grandmother.

I actually think that the most efficacious way of making a difference is to lead by example, and doing random acts of kindness is setting a very good example of how to behave in the world.

The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

The reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century. And the fact that we are going to have problems with fossil fuel is a given.

I'm always surprised when people say, "Oh, it got such mixed reviews." I guess I didn't read them.

All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.