To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.

We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

A cat is a cat.

I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

Once I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do'

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

Candide is one of those books I read when I was young and that I come back to regularly.

Jay-Z, he knows precisely who he's going for - 14-year-old white suburban girls.

I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself.

How wise are Thy commandments O Lord. Each one of them applies to somebody or other I know.

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

You don't want to line up on the blocks and know you have not done everything you possibly can.