People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

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.

Time is the most valuable currency so spend it wisely

Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis.

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain.

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.

The end is inherent in the means.

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

There are books... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

They don't hang dukes, darling. He'd be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty.

I choose to think of tv audience as nameless, formless, faceless people who are all like me. And anything that I write, if I like it, they'll like it.