Men are fickle creatures, capable of kindness and compassion yet fascinated by the basest atrocities.

Life is the greatest of all mysteries, and though I seek to solve its many riddles, my deepest fear is that I will succeed.

This life is but a brief tenure, one of many perspectives a spirit must experience in the quest for eternity.

The most awesome powers are those not wielded.

An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

Fluorine has a protecting action against caries, but this is a local effect. If you drink it, you are running the risk of all kinds of toxic actions.

I always get sort of an image of what the character is gonna look like and then I kind of go with it.

I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

If you're on a beach and a tsunami hits, you'll drown whether you're a small child or an Olympic swimmer. Some things will go bad no matter how good you are.

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

Big government makes small citizens.

Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.