Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Wilds whisper, yet I long for their roar.

There will never be a point in my life where it is acceptable to waste time.

All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.

From an early age I knew very strongly the lust to kill.

At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars.

Parents tell us things to protect us, or they educate us from their own misinformation or misconceptions.

I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me, I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.

He also knows the importance of intuition.

It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should I write at the age of sixty-four," but never, "What should I write in 1940."

One of the privileges of doing television is the ability to evaluate my own performance and try to improve upon it.