In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

We reach the point where our profession is also our hobby.

Death ends a life, it does not end a relationship.

I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days.

Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor's mind toward some resolution which it may never find.

Humans who spend time in the wilderness, alone, without man-made mechanical noise around them, often discover that their brain begins to recover its ability to discern things.

The Cross was the manifestation of Divine love without reserve or limit; but it was also the expression of man's unutterable malignity.

That Jesus of Nazareth died upon a cross is mere matter of history; that He who did so die was the Christ the Son of God is entirely a matter of revelation.

A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk.

All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy.

For what constitutes a Christian is not; accepting the Christian's creed, but accepting Christ as Savior and Lord. It is a question of personal loyalty and love.

Have you sipped your poems today?

That's why they call it a heartbreak. Because you really feel like your heart is breaking. It's not just an emotion pain, it's a physical pain too.

Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.

If principle is good for anything it is worth living up to.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

If I do continue to have the opportunity to work in Iran, that's very much what I'd prefer to do.

Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.

The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.

There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.

Most things I worry about never happen anyway.