Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.

The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.

Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.

To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description.

The question we do not see when we are young is whether we own pride or are owned by it.

New gods arise when they are needed.

What is sanity, after all, except the control of madness?

The woods seemed all answer and healing and more than enough to live for.

Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness.

You can't be a little bit saintly any more than you can be a little bit pregnant.

things that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat.

It is during our failures that we discover our true desire for success.

If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.

I love actors, and I'm very protective of them. I trust them. It's a mutual trust.

In the wake of winning the war, Poland wants to help win peace with Iraq. I believe that the international community cannot leave Iraq without support.

After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.

If you want to be free, learn to live simply.

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.

Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.

I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.

You had some unexpected help. You had help from God! Essentially, it became a handicap match! Me vs you and God!