Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.

in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.

He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.

This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we've all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody went crazy together nobody would notice, what do you think?

He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.

When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are going to be.... You get a little older and you pull back on some of that. I think you wind up just tryin to minimize the pain.

Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world.

It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.

That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.

You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.

The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government.

What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.

In the blues, it just takes so long for us to get recognized.

Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.