To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.

There will always be those who must look into the dark in order to see.

Ruefully admitting we can neither remain children nor all become artists still less saints and mystics, we turn back, regretfully, but massively, to the time-ridden world.

Teaching others, he corrected himself.

Embrace your sweat. It is your essence and your emancipation.

I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way.

Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.

Creativity is very self-indulgent.

Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.

I would never be a television presenter. It's not something I could ever do.

If the depths of everyone's sin was made public, we would all be much more gracious to each other.

Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.