Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

ligion is the opiate of the masses." "I did masses of opiates religiously.

I think most people are afraid to love because they want the freedom to suffer alone.

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion.

As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

At home they thought of white people as a vague but powerful entity--like the forces that control the weather, that capable of destruction, that hidden from view.

90 times truth is beyond expectations, 10 times expectations become truth.

Natural history is not about producing fables.

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.

I really don't know where the independent fits in anymore when twenty-five million dollar movies are considered straight-to-video fare. We're like penny postage stamps.

I'm happy to be working with all women.