Southward, two mighty ranges of the Appalachians shouldered their way into the blue distance like tremendous caravans marching across eternity.

Religions change; beer and wine remain.

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void

Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces.

Do not fear the fire within you, burning brighter than any star it attracts only those whose flame feeds off the very air that you breathe. Let passion be the inferno that engulfs your soul.

I've seen what rational thought leads to. Dumbest people I ever met were intellectuals.

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Mathematics takes us still further from what is human into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual world, but ever possible world, must conform.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

It's incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can be a kaleidoscope of possibility.

The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find.

But most good movies have a gun in them.

You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.

Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.