Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.

The stationary condition is the beginning of the end

I like my thingshurried and haunted. Night teadarktime. Sacred geometry, secret geometrypetal-flame whisper: I am here, and you aren't.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.

Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.

I walk down the street and people don't go, 'my God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in New York City.

If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.

I love singing and that's kind of my new thing.

Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.

A man who saw a miracle would reject his eyes' witness, if those with him saw nothing.