Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Thinking is mind over matter.

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.

You know, OK, I made a few jokes - and they killed 3000 Americans. Fair trade.

We are all stronger than we can ever imagine being. Every choice matters starting with today. And today, I choose to live.

I can feel it... the chance to start over, to live right, to love right, to burn up in a fiery cloud and never again be buried in the mud.

We know but little of true Christianity, if we don't feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.

I'm 37 years old and don't have a steady paycheck.

Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.

Infinitely more taboos, on television.

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.