There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

Bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

Photographers can either look out the window at the world or they can look in the mirror.

No one messes around with a nerd's computer and escapes unscathed.

When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.

This beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath.

It was like she was thinking, How far can I go with this? How much more can I fit in my life without losing control?

This item is a mere fleabite in the ocean of our expenditure.

There's a lot that you can do in television that you can't do with a film, theoretically. At the time, the only possibility was to do a movie.

When did America forget that it's America?