That is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.

Life's a one way road, Don't just stand next to it and wait to get a pick-up back.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.

I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.

There's things that I can do as an actor that I couldn't do in any other form of life and I've got a strange personality. But film requires strange people, so I've got a nice comfy home.

Take your passion and make it happen.

[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin.

I found you people in mud huts.. you were living in CAVES!

The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.