When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

Almost everybody we get together with about a matter, even if it is of the highest importance, is incompetent.

These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!

Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.

I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.

They don't want you to vote. If they did, we wouldn't vote on a Tuesday. In November. You ever throw a party on a Tuesday? No. Because nobody would come.

Not only do you have to put yourself in harms way in service of your country, you have to leave your families at home. It is a great sacrifice.

The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent.

But actors should act. You should see them most often rather than just not.

As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.

There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.