The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then

You're the strangest person I ever met, she said & I said you too & we decided we'd know each other a long time.

Elvis changed the country music scene quite a bit; he almost put country music out of business.

Some places are like family. They annoy us to no end, especially during the holidays, but we keep coming back for more because we know, deep in our hearts, that our destinies are intertwined.

I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places.

All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.

I discovered there are some messages, left by other artists. I've just started to draw, say, to share the visions with them, or to start my own. Which will probably be transformed soon by others.

The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him.

In the battle of faith, money is usually the last stronghold to fall.