War is science of destruction.

Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined.

If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek.

Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost every ear in the country was born in Madison county, Kentucky, on the 24th of December, 1809.

Kindness expressed to a stranger is kindness expressed to God.

Denis's love for Mattia had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent.

I don't like to sugarcoat, it can cause an addiction to B.S.

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

If you want to finish, sometimes you can't just finish. You gotta finish fast!

When anything is pointed out, our only idea is to go from wrong to right; in spite of the fact that it has taken us years to get to wrong we try to get right in a moment.

We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in the darkness.

Americans are an odd bunch, but they grow on you.

My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between.