Some men live with an invisible limp, stagger, or drag a leg. Their sons are often angry.

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.

The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.

Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.

We make the path by walking.

It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.

To a great mind, nothing is little.

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

If you knew who God made you to be, you'd never want to be anyone else.

If I wasn't playing football, I'd be a juvenile probation officer.

Tip to out-of-town visitors. If you buy something here in New York and you want to have it shipped home, be suspicious if the clerk tells you they don't need your name and address.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

I'm an artist first and foremost. So things are gonna go up and down and sideways and whichever way all through life.

Dreams can be relentless tyrants.

I don’t want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I’ll act if it’s the right thing.