The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

We can go and explore different roads in our future, but the past ones are permanent, just like our greatest memories.

History is a vast early warning system.

My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear - a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence

Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?

The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.

I don't think our death ray is working. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet.

She press'd his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.

I think the fundamental part of my technique is my vibrato.

Stick with me, kids. It's about to get so good... -A

...humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that I have for them; not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in my image.