There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so... their position is almost laughably hopeless.

One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.

If the unicorn does live among the snows held up forever on the line of the Equator then it is clear why the world should know so little about them.

It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.

For what I give, not what I take, For battle, not for victory, My prayer of thanks I make.

There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves but strive to keep everything else so ... their position is almost laughably hopeless.

It is always wise as it is also fair to test a man by the standards of his own day and not by those of another.

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them.

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.

Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.

We've had a Congress that's spent money like John Edwards at a beauty shop.

Nobody's Perfect

Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

Come into the silence of solitude, and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God.

If i'm going to survive, it won't be because i have a lion-skin cloak. I'm not Hercules.