Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

The best way out is always through.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

On the bank of an ocean, let your mind fly in the cloudless sky while your heart enjoys the love of the sun.

For writers it is always said that the first twenty years of life contain the whole of experience – the rest is observation

Part of the business of being an artist is abetting talent. The best do that.

The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.

God's love never quits or fails or walks away.

You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.

I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking.

As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, 'Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.'

We have no idea what's natural and what's man made. [...] There is no fingerprint of human-caused warming.

If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.