Until the end of time, a winning positive attitude will always conquer all struggles, challenges and obstacles.

The avant-garde is now an arrière-garde.

The most sacred thing is to be able to shut your own door.

Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

I use memories but I will not allow memories to use me.

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.

This earthly body is slow and heavy in all its motions, listless and soon tired with action. But our heavenly bodies shall be as fire; as active and as nimble as our thoughts are.

Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts.

Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.

I totally forget about snowboarding in the summertime.